Re: Protecting Pakistan's Hindus
what nonsense is this concept of 'group' prayer by a cricket team? if an individual wants to pray let him go do that. the operative word in a TEAM is the word TEAM.
I remember the other guy who had to convert from christianity to muslim - yeah I am sure there was nobody openly forcing him to convert but when 15 out of a team of 16 are gathering for a nice namaz I am sure he felt real comfy
In Islam, congregational prayers are considered far more meritorious than ones prayed alone...its why people bother going to mosques and praying in groups when they're technically allowed to pray alone wherever is most convenient for them. If there are 15 Muslim people sitting around, and all of them want to pray, its absolutely ridiculous to force them to pray separately..and I fail to see how that should offend anyone's religious sentiments.
As for the guy who converted, from what I remember reading on BBC, it sounds like he did so pretty enthusiastically over a long period of time...and if, as you claim, he really did convert simply because he felt left out of congregational namaz, then he was a pretty pathetic Christian to begin with. I went to Catholic schools my entire life...I was "left out" of mass every morning. You don't see me converting to Christianity because I felt left out.