Khaled: Read and be more astounded

Submitted by Plato (India), Jul 4, 2008 at 02:35

Mr. Khaled what connection does your reply have to my post, Khaled: Absolutely right. Islam is all about BELIEF (http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/134154) ??

Please take the trouble to read what is in the post before dashing off irrelevant replies. You have answered in, typical Muslim fashion, by changing the topic (to the socio-economic conditions in India.)

Tell us, Mr. Khaled, what has the caste system, the degrading poverty, HIV and other ills we have in India got to do with my pointing out that Islam does not allow any questioning of its beliefs or the fact that Allah says He will not tolerate any religion other than Islam?

If what you are hinting is that Islam is the solution to India's ills then I am afraid it has not set any good examples. Muslim countries also suffer from extreme poverty (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan….), honour killings and genital mutilation of women, dictatorial regimes in almost every Islamic country (don't come back with the usual Muslim cop out that there are no true, pure Islamic countries anywhere).

You also write: >>… so you suggest the slaughter and intolerance of your own countrymen too...great…<<

In intolerant India the Kashmiri Muslims drove out a few hundred thousand Hindus and have been made homeless in their own homeland. In intolerant India the Muslims have become the third largest Muslim population in the world as you have admitted. The intolerant Hindus chose a Muslim to be their president. They have had Muslims as chief justices and chief ministers of states including Hindu majority ones. India has Muslims who are richer than most Pakistani Muslims. Intolerant India has people practicing practically every religion that the world has known, including people who were driven out of their land by Muslims because of their religion (Zoroastrians) and who found safe haven in intolerant India.

In tolerant Islamic Pakistan a Hindu population of about 20% has now dwindled into 3 or 4%. Tolerant Muslim Pakistan has declared the Ahmedias to be non-Muslims and harasses them and prevents them from going on Haj. Intolerant India subsidises Haj pilgrimage for all Muslims.

>>İ have been to india for business-related matters --and i was very shocked. The media paints it as a paradise with a booming economy --but i all i saw were poor kids swimming in swamps, beggars, and Sikh people demanding seperation from india!!<<

You have been to India. You looked but did not see.

Did you see the world-class universities that many kids, including some of those you saw swimming in swamps, go to? The media tells you rightly the economy is booming but I have yet to read anywhere that India is already a paradise. It has a long way to go but it will get there in a generation or two.

The intolerant Hindus have made a Sikh, some members of whose community once demanded separation from India, their prime minister.

You see Mr. Khaled, tolerance and intolerance take on different meanings for Muslims. It astounds us infidels!

Regards,

Plato

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