I don’t know what to say about this one. But what I CAN say without any hedging is that only Mr. Ibn Khaldun Bharati in India has the intellectual temerity and the wherewithal to have come up with something like this. Something so authentic yet so controversial. The usual highbrow or academic type wouldn’t have the guts to go beyond the anodyne when discussing a subject of this nature.
Islam can never be Indianized because then it would have to accept Hindu influences and that would make Muslims in India untouchable to those in all Muslim countries. They would also have to understand that idol worship is not worshipping the idol but worshipping God who is only represented by the idol. What would then happen to that fundamental part of Islam that says that idol worshippers must be killed?
The fact is that those who believe that only their own religion is true and all other religions are false cannot live in peace with any other religion.
I don’t know what to say about this one. But what I CAN say without any hedging is that only Mr. Ibn Khaldun Bharati in India has the intellectual temerity and the wherewithal to have come up with something like this. Something so authentic yet so controversial. The usual highbrow or academic type wouldn’t have the guts to go beyond the anodyne when discussing a subject of this nature.
Islam can never be Indianized because then it would have to accept Hindu influences and that would make Muslims in India untouchable to those in all Muslim countries. They would also have to understand that idol worship is not worshipping the idol but worshipping God who is only represented by the idol. What would then happen to that fundamental part of Islam that says that idol worshippers must be killed?
The fact is that those who believe that only their own religion is true and all other religions are false cannot live in peace with any other religion.