Not All Muslims Are Bad

[Guest]

People like Osama Bin Laden are bringing bad name to our community. Even though it is a minority the religion is respect across the globe. The majority of population is Christians, next comes Muslims, followed by Buddhism and Hinduism (one and the same)

[Kumar]

I too agree that \"Not All Muslims Are Bad\" but only a few are bad (fanatics) who bring bad name to the entire community. I have few muslim friends who call me home for iftar parties and also to taste haleem and Sher Khorma (Oh god I love it !!!!!)

If anyone says that all muslims are bad then he/she should be hanged?

Kumar

[Saif]

Hi Kumar,

I agree with your views. I like to make friendship with broad minded guys like you. I\'ve done with my BE (Electronic) from Osmania in 1999 and am settled in Durban now working for an MNC called Kornicol Ltd.

[kumar]

Making friendship is easy, Saif, but keeping the friendship is difficult. I believe in long term friendships. If you agree with me then I am ready and can converse on regular basis. Kumar

[Raghu]

I think the board title reads stupid. No particular group of people can be generalized. It almost means that \"Most Muslims are bad\". I think that is plain wrong. What exactly do you mean by bad. That they are not like you? You are right to the extent that it is possible for a few people like bin Laden/Taliban/Bukhari to jeopardise the name of the entire community. Only when the fringe elements like these dictate the agenda, things go awry. I think it is time for the liberals among Muslims to take over and correct the perceptions. But then they have to be rational and liberal to do that.

[abhi]

kumar dont make friends with muslims, they might kill you like what they did to wtc,pentagon

[dil hai hindustani]

please read my response in HARRASMENT AT HYDERABAD AIRPORT.

[fareed]

VICTIM OF PREJUDICE
\"The trouble with Muslims is that they have ceased to be the DOMINANT POWER and have become the Subjugated Community. The result is that every action of a Muslim is criticised, every move condemned; every reaction misinterpreted, and the whole community is blamed for either the fault of a few or the indifference of the many.\"
Even after 50 years of partition, Indian Muslims suffer from a feeling of insecurity.
Indian Muslims suffer from two traumas today: One, the religious prejudice against them which has historical roots and has been whipped up by the protagonists of Hindutva and two, their campaign against so-called pseudo-secularism, targeting Indian Muslims as the favoured lot, receiving preferential treatment at the hands of the country’s rulers. Arising out of these two developments, there is a widespread misconception about Islam, which is presented by its detractors as a backward-looking faith refusing to allow its followers to move with the times.
This is a hangover of the calumny against Islam started by the Christian clergy within 50 years of the passing away of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh); it was mounted with a virulence and hate that is unparalleled in human annals. The reason was simple. Islam spread in the lands which were under Christian domination and it uprooted the hold of Christianity on the people.
No one has put the case about the phenomenon better than H G Wells, one of it’s bitterest critics, who in his Outline of History wrote, \"Islam prevailed because it was the best social and political order the times could offer. It prevailed because everywhere it found politically apathetic peoples robbed, oppressed, bullied, uneducated and unorganised and it found selfish and unsound governments out of touch with any people at all. It was the broadest, freshest and cleanest political idea that has come into actual activity in the world and it offered better terms than any other to the masses of mankind.\"
However, to the Christians the shock was too great to bear, both for the rulers and the clerics, as they retreated from the lands they had ruled. They consoled themselves by painting Muhammad (pbuh) as Manhound or the devil and Islam as a false religion. Many eminent Orientalists have now \"exposed the distorted reports of fanatical Christians,\" to quote Edward Dennis Ross, \"which led to the dissemination of a multitude of gross calumnies\". He pointed out that what was good in Islam \"was entirely ignored\" and \"what was not good in the eyes of Europe was exaggerated and misinterpreted.\"
Until the advent of the British in India, Islam, despite being the dominant power, was free from such distortions or misinterpretations, but during their rule the same propaganda against it was unleashed among Hindus by both British civilians and clerics. Little has happened even after their departure to change this atmosphere of prejudice against Islam. Indian Muslims continue to be viewed as a drag on India’s progress, an alien community, intolerant, aggressive and uncompromising, ready to break but unwilling to bend, prepared to rot in their ghettos but refusing to adjust to the changing requirements. Is it not strange that a religion, which brought about the greatest revolution in the history of the world and changed the shape of mankind, should be condemned as the most retrograde, outlandish and regressive of all religions? Some condescendingly explain that the fault might not lie with Islam but with Muslims. Neither proposition is true.
The attack against Islam takes a subtle form; it is said that Islam needs reforms. Better still, that unless Muslims give up their unqualified adherence to the Quran, neither reform nor renewal of their faith is possible. And without these, it is stressed, they are doomed. This, in effect, amounts to asking Muslims to give up Islam.
For the Quran is really the basis of Islam: no Muslim can modify or alter it. Those who doubt its divinity cannot remain in the fold. The Quran is the pivot around which everything revolves for Muslims. Though revealed in Arabic and addressed to the Arabs, it has a universal message.
Islam is fundamentally as progressive or perhaps more than any other religion and Muslims are as good or bad in following its precepts and practices as the followers of other religions. The trouble with Muslims is that they have ceased to be the DOMINANT POWER and have become the subjugated community; their erstwhile subjects have become the rulers who have no sympathy or consideration for them. The result is that every action of a Muslim is criticised, every move condemned; every reaction misinterpreted, and the whole community is blamed for either the fault of a few or the indifference of the many.
Note: I have taken these excerpts from the award-winning book ‘Victim of Prejudice’ by Dr. Rafiq Zakaria. He was also featured on ‘Movers & Shakers’. I was guessing why he received an award for this book by a Hindu Fundamentalist Government. Upon reaching the end of the book, he has very meticulously driven the point that Islam needs basic reforms, which of course, is unacceptable to any Muslim. So I have only selected paragraphs which are informative.

[Kumar.]

Hi Fareed,

Good job. But I would appreciate if you mention your views instead of selecting paras and putting it. Try write short notes such that people find it interesting to read. Hope you understand and don\'t misunderstand me. Bye the bye Fareed, do you think that Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs and Christians are different. All are human beings. But look different due to their place of living and the changing climatic conditions. God is no where. He is in you and me. We all can become gods provided if you can help your friend, relative, rich, poor, the required. Then only you or me can be called as a human. Until unless we decide whether we fight for religion or live for a nobel cause we can\'t call ourselves as humans. What say brother?

Kumar

[Rao]

I have travelled all over the world and talked to many people from all over India,gulf countries,jordan,pakistan,Indonesiaand palestine.The thing I won\'t like among them is that no muslim friend accepts the other rligions are also great and the women from oter religions are also have same virtues and other people are not kaffirs as they believe in The GOD.I am a Hindu but I am not a kaffir(non believer)just because I do not believe in your prophet and your concept of The God.They always blame the west and christians for all the bad things happened in this world as you did in your article,but they want all the modern comforts that came from the very cultures they hate,they do not realize no body is forcing them to change their belief customs by imposing.The west is not responcible for India \'s partition, kashmir problem,formation of Eritricea from Ethiopia,and war between Iraq and Iran but it was because of your fanatism.There is no place for hatred in any religion.