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I fear it will be devastating for PK
Hindu-ization of india is a self destructive path for that country....it could be seen even within the first year of mickey-mouse modi's helm to power. A mere glimpse of headlines in india and the whole debate about so-called "hindu nationalism" is enough to reach that conclusion. It's no different than talebanization - which is equally degenerate in nature
you need to visit this forum more often.If we look at Islamic history prior to 1400 years we will find many examples of cosmetic surgery. If Islam in Arab would accomodate those examples a pandora box would open. So Arabian Islam kept things simple by taking kind of a short cut and started things all over from 6th century AD. Otherwise we 'Muslims' would be celebrating Moses victory over Pharaoh and birth of Jesus equally. Would have been a total approach, beneficial from many aspects. But we can't question the intentions of pioneers of Arabian Islam, they might have genuine justifications. As some people think Islam in sub continent was born in 1947, most of the people think Islam on earth was born 1400 ago. Islam is Deen ul Queyyem, it never sieze to exist for one day.
People in India preserved this Deen/Dharam/Religion for thousands of years. They also saved its totalness. So you will see dharmic people celebrating Eid, Holi, Christmas together. If they ask to preserve the basics means they ask to preserve the tolerance and acceptance of new. Its like dual effect. See 'hindu' is relatively new term they have accepted it wholeheartedly.
Comparing Taliban with these people would be a historical mistake. Talibans don't have even complete Arabian Islam, few selected Verses and Hadiths and their implementation on force. Some people treat them as Kharjis i.e. people out of religion. They are product of particular time and space interaction, many have come before.
OP also need introspection what has been happening in his world or how he has been looking at the world.
you need to visit this forum more often.
If we look at Islamic history prior to 1400 years we will find many examples of cosmetic surgery. If Islam in Arab would accomodate those examples a pandora box would open. So Arabian Islam kept things simple by taking kind of a short cut and started things all over from 6th century AD. Otherwise we 'Muslims' would be celebrating Moses victory over Pharaoh and birth of Jesus equally.
S Khilnani Book: #India was "fragmented into kingdoms, savaged by #caste divisions, mired in poverty" http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/india-in-pieces … via @newyorker
Last year, a professor at the Indian Science Congress, in Mumbai, claimed that India possessed airplanes seven thousand years ago. He isn’t alone in such beliefs. When a certain swathe of India’s population considers the country’s ancient past, it doesn’t see a country fragmented into kingdoms, savaged by caste divisions, and mired in poverty; rather, what’s envisioned is a vast, unified Hindu empire stretching from Kashmir to the Indian tip at Kanyakumari. This imagined entity brims with characters from Indian epics and spits out grand inventions that would put scientists in the twenty-first century to shame—not only airplanes but cars, plastic surgery, and stem-cell research. What these Indians see, in other words, is an India that was once greater than any other nation on earth, and which has since fallen into a cruddy, postcolonial despair. Muslim and British invaders, they insist, have sapped the subcontinent’s energies over the past millennium.
This is a major strand of the nativist philosophy espoused by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the flotilla of parties and social organizations that escorted him to power, in 2014. It is, in the rippling and echoing way of world events, in step with archaic right-wing movements everywhere—Make India Great Again would be a suitable slogan—and it is untroubled by facts. In the past year, right-wing mobs have lynched and beaten Muslims and Dalits (the former untouchables, who have often refused to be co-opted by upper-class-dominated Hindu nationalism) in Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Jharkhand for allegedly eating beef, a crime that these nationalists cannot condone after a millennium of their religion’s supposed persecution. (Hinduism has always been the majority religion on the subcontinent.) Dormant laws in Indian states banning cow-slaughter and beef consumption are now being enforced. In January, a Dalit Ph.D. student at Hyderabad University hanged himself from the ceiling fan in his room after right-wing groups bore down on him for his activism. Elsewhere, emboldened nationalist groups have intimidated fiction writers, scholars, and publishers into silence for wounding religious sentiments. Student protests are branded “anti-national” and slapped with sedition charges.
In India, right now, the past is violently alive, and it is being bandied about like a blunt instrument, striking down those who try to speak sense to the present or who try to point out that this past is itself a fiction.
One of the intellectuals involved in calling the right’s bluff is the Indian scholar Sunil Khilnani, who has just published an incisive work of popular history, “Incarnations: India in Fifty Lives.” Where the opposition is clamorous, the book is calm; where the opposition flexes its Vedic muscles, the book is undercutting, irreverent, and impish. It attempts to show, through prodigious but lightly worn scholarship, how complex and heterodox the Indian past was, and how it has been, and continues to be, constructed.
Khilnani begins with the Buddha, who lived around 500 B.C.E., and is thus, Khilnani writes, the “first individual personality we can recognize in the subcontinent’s history,” as well as an apostle of neutrality and nonviolence. The Buddha’s religion has receded in India, except as a balm to the Dalits, who escaped into it, and as a self-help tool for a sliver of the upper classes, who have embraced it the way that some people in the West do. Buddha prefigures many of the themes in the book. A sheltered man, he is moved by his first encounter with suffering, and leaves behind his wealthy family to wander India in the thrall of slowly budding new ideas. He is serene and centered amid violence. He is open-minded and against sects in a Brahmin-dominated society. He calls for a total reinvention of Hinduism—one that becomes its own religion.....
progressive ideas you mean cow piss drinking???Any religious scripture which teaches tolerance, unity, contains progressive ideas, wisdom and appeals well to todays world context and gives good message to people should be given importance.
Nothing wrong with that.
Most of the Hindu scriptures are universal and consider humanity as one. So the arguments against Gita are not valid.
The Supreme court of India has said Hinduism is the way of Life. Recently some "Seculars" tried to get the verdict reversed but the court has maintained the sameprogressive ideas you mean cow piss drinking???
tolerance and hinduism are poles apart , i can go on and on