Re: Shab Barat Divali, Diye Patakhe
Hattori Sahab,
I am a great fan of your posts and have been diligently reading them these past few days. Even though I find them full of rumors, misconceptions and falsehoods especially wrt India, I desist from replying. But you have made several accusations against me so I must respond in detail.
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Attacking you personally: If you read the thread properly you will find that I was posting my observations about Muslims in generic anthropological terms. No where did I brought down the discussion to a personal level. It was you who started with the personal bit in post #49
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‘Hindu’ surnames: You are making the same error that many other Indians by confusing Indic with ‘Hindu’. Generally speaking, the ‘Hindu’ surnames indicate jati which is not a religious concept but a sociological one. Please do not confuse it with varna which is indeed a religious concept. *Jati *based surnames indicate ones origin rather than religion. This is similar to a tribal affiliation of Pashtuns.
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Insulting you: When I studied in Ajmer, I had a large number of Muslim friends. Few of them told me that they traced their lineage directly from Prophet Muhammad [pbuh] and that it was considered a great honor. I don’t understand how I insulted you by associating you with his lineage. If you one of those exceptional Indians who trace their lineage to the Prophet, than you should be proud and humbled rather than feel insulted. Just my personal opinion, you can disagree.
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Insulting holy Prophet: Huh ? Where did I do that ? Or do you think that Non-Muslims insult him by the very act of talking about him. My apologies if you feel that way.
All my observations seem logical and consistent to me. But perhaps you are right and what seems logical to me is really illogical and I have contracted some weird mental disease because of ‘eating the flesh of dead animals’ [sic] 