Friday, July 08, 2022

One is simple, many - incomprehensible.

"The Islamophobia Bill passed by the US Congress recently was, in reality, discreetly promoted by the White House and the US State Department and the target for its attention was unambiguously identified as India." Firstpost. "Anti-India and anti-Hindu Somali-origin Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, notorious for her dalliance with Pakistan, and a gullible Jewish Congressional Democratic representative were chosen to sponsor it, though the Democratic caucus in Congress does indeed habitually adopt hostile positions towards India." "White hegemony has ruled the world for three hundred years." TOI. "For example, in the accounts of the early Portuguese, Dutch, French and British visitors we notice a sense of easy familiarity with which they understand the scriptural origins of the festivals, customs and beliefs of Indian Muslims. In direct contrast, we notice how incredibly they struggle to grasp even a basic understanding of the Hindu side, and how they brand it variously as black magic, superstition and evil." Firstpost. That is understandable. "Three of the world's major religions - the monotheist traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - were all born in the Middle East and are all inextricably linked to one another. Christianity was born from within the Jewish tradition, and Islam developed from both Judaism and Christianity." PBS. All the three religions start from Prophet Abraham (Ibrahim for Muslims) and are called Abrahamic religions, wikipedia. They worship the same god and have been fighting each other ever since the beginning. Christians hate the Jews, who they blame for the crucifixion of Jesus, and this culminated in the Nazi Holocaust of Jews, Britannica. "Crusades, military expeditions, beginning in the late 11th century, that were organized by Western European Christians in response to centuries of Muslim wars of expansion. Their objectives were to check the spread of Islam, to retake control of the Holy Land in the Eastern Mediterranean, to conquer pagan areas, and to recapture formerly Christian territories: they were seen by many of their participants as a means of redemption and expiation for sins." Britannica. Within Christians, Catholics and Protestants have been fighting each other, wikipedia, most recently in Northern Ireland which ended in an uneasy peace with the Good Friday Agreement, wikipedia. Within Muslims, Sunnis and Shia have been fighting each other almost since the time of the first Caliph, Conversation. Both Christians and Muslims believe in converting people of other faiths, by force if necessary, known as proselytism, wikipedia. In these religions, "God is typically referred to with masculine grammatical articles only, wikipedia. Hinduism is a way of life, with gods and goddesses. Hindus do not convert and do not fight among themselves about which god or goddess to worship, TOI. Not surprising that one-god religions refer to Hindus as heathens or kafirs, to be killed by Believers to attain paradise. We have survived so far. But, will we survive our lot? Worrying.             

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