Once again, very sad indeed. Your argument lacks both character and content. Don't misquote the Quran to win a petty net debate.
It's interesting you made the father/son analogy. Justice Javed Iqbal, Allama Iqbal's son, has on numerous occasions acknowledged that Allama Iqbal did in fact drink... This flies in the face of your argument. You would have a son deny an open, commonly known fact about his father - who happens to be a public figure? Why? Could it be that it is *you* who is insecure about our national heroes to the point where you would like to hide/lie about them? Well, you may be, but I am not.
Iqbal was great despite his faults. And you obviously missed it in your desire to pen a quick retort, but that was my point...
By lying about your heroes, you do them a disservice and discredit yourself. Be brave about history. Don't propagate untruths just to feel better about yourself or to tend to those chips on your shoulder. Fundamentalist and his ilk are quick to judge and condemn, when an individual's personal conduct - given that it does not harm society - is none of their bloody business. The man might have some faults but may still, on the whole, be a great asset to humanity. Iqbal is the perfect example of this. Seen through the petty filter of binary judgement which too many mullah-parasts have taken to, everyone other than their own carbon copies is doomed to hell. You may think of your God and religion in this way, but I do not.
There is no compulsion in the matter of religion is a verse of the Quran which I did NOT misquote. So first of all, please learn the proper meaning of words before using them to hurl accusations. "Misquote" would mean that I wrote the verse to be other than what it is.
Now, coming to the context of the verse... You are claiming that this verse only concerned the Kuffar of Mecca. Well, newsflash! The Kuffar of Mecca are no more. They are dead and gone. So if one follows your line of logic, this ayat is now irrelevant because the situation it applied to is no longer present?? Of course it isn't! The fact is that we have free will and whether we adhere to precepts of religion or not is for us to decide. No one can stuff religion down our throats. Something that illiterate mullahs (and illiterate TV preachers of the christian persuasion) tend to have a penchant for. This is what "no compulsion in the matter of religion" translates to.
We've become a society obsessed with people's personal acts - how someone dresses, why they drink, how they pray, what someone does in the confines of their own home - and we have very little time/consideration left for the larger issues that afflict us. We are often told by the mullah brigade that the only reason why things aren't going wonderfully for us is because we don't pray enough, or that some amongst us claim to be muslims but drink... if that is really the extent of their analysis or the depth of their thinking, then good luck to them!
You are free to follow them or focus your energy on denying historical facts, and the rest of us are free to follow the proverbial path the Prophet highlighted that takes men to China in pursuit of knowledge.
