Re: Mullah Bashing a quality of good muslim?
The post is riddled with contradictions.
The claim is that it is wrong to criticise others, that we should not pass judgements on others, specifically the Mulla loge/religious segment. Yet here we see you labeling people who criticise Mullas as:
a) Enlightened moderates - Very few people ascribe the label to themselves, it is a pejorative associated with Pervez Musharraf.
b) Non-practicing Muslims who are only proud of their names
c) People who join bandwagons instead of basing their words on actual thinking
You have also juxtaposed those who criticize Mullas even terrorist supporters with Kuffars at the time of the Prophet. By implication, you have compared Mullas, even terrorist supporters, with the early adopters of Islam.
Sir let me make this much clear: I am not someone who belongs to any bandwagon. I have never bought into the enlightened moderation spiel of Musharraf, and I do not think being a Muslim is only about having a Muslim name. Having said all that, I will have very well thought out reasons for 'bashing' other Muslims, especially for terrorism. These reasons take into account relatively obvious factors such as media bias and advocacy of certain views by certain quarters, the fact that I can be in error and another has complete right to proffer a different reasoning.
Somehow the easy dodge of dont criticise brother Muslim, dont jump on bandwagons doesnt come up when the so-called 'enlightened moderates' and 'mod-Muslims' and 'Muslims in name only' are criticised. Please. You automatically assume that people are lacking basic intellectual faculties if you think that the only reason they could have for their criticism is that they're jumping on bandwagons or that they're brainwashed by the media and you arent.
Let us also be clear on another point. At no point should one consider that now I have the right to 'correct' my brothers and sisters, whereas before I was merely a sinner who needed to work on himself. This is a sure recipe for religious hubris, for religious elitism, for engineering people who feel they have dominion over thought just because they have dominion over their prayer group. We are all equally equipped with thought, and we all have our Islamic obligations. One does not preclude the other, nor do I regard someone's thoughts or actions as defacto acceptable or excusable just on the basis of which of their religious obligations they have been meeting.