Re: Respect of Women
Peace sister Nisha25
I don’t really take things personally, but passions run high sometimes when fairness in discourse is in question. This is all we have. I mean when a person feels so strongly to bring down an aspect of a given religion then they should do so when they have something better to offer. If they have nothing better to offer then it is best to remain silent. You’ll notice whenever I talk about another religion I don’t do it to ridicule them, but rather to show comparison to Islam.
There was once a Hindu acquaintance I was talking to about jihad and he felt it so important to state that Islam was a religion of war and made war a holy act and tried to justify his stance using references for jihad. You know as well as I do people who do this are not looking for betterment of humanity he had no intention to invite us to his way just to dismantle the stronghold that our belief has on us. Well in response I told him that the Baghwad-Gita was set in a setting just about jihad and how Krsn advised Arjn to fight despite his worries about the Pandav being family the fact that they represented evil was the reason to fight - and in that context it was good.
My point was if people were more concerned with their own scriptures then would easily see the similarities in them with our scriptures and 99 times out of 100 the things we are criticised about are already present in previous scripture for example, hijab does not originate in the final version of Islam it came to the People of the Book, same with ritual slaughter of animals, same with stoning to death for adultery and war and other things that Muslims are criticised for are actually more severe and appear initially in previous scriptures. People have on the whole abandoned some of those practices thinking they are wiser than God! I can demonstrate why they are not …
Anyhow … if a person must criticise Islam at least he should make sure that that specific criticism is exclusive to Islam and not present in other religions or for that matter in his own religion and that includes atheists or those who follow secular laws.
Rather you will find much of the “praiseworthy” things you find today originate in Islam and had never before appeared in previous scripture. This is a testable point.
I hope and pray that people discuss things here for betterment and if they feel up to it let them show us how by not doing such and such for example hijab or heavy sentences on adulterers it is better for humanity.