Mr. Bharati does not hedge. His essays command the reader’s attention from the get-go… The way he gets to the heart of any question that stirs his consciousness is staggering. This article of his, too, like many earlier ones, bears testimony to what a fine mind he is. Armed with a deep knowledge of Islam, its history and of the psyche of the faithful, he presents his arguments so logically and with such authenticity that only those not enough knowledgeable or out-and-out intransigent would have the courage to be on at him.
Mr. Bharati does not hedge. His essays command the reader’s attention from the get-go… The way he gets to the heart of any question that stirs his consciousness is staggering. This article of his, too, like many earlier ones, bears testimony to a fine mind that he is. Armed with a deep knowledge of Islam, its history and of the psyche of the faithful, he presents his arguments so logically and with such authenticity that only those not enough knowledgeable or out-and-out intransigent would have the courage to be on at him.
The central question of the article is trite (“Would their theology, ideology, religious discourse, political narrative, and societal restrictions let them wear Ram’s love on the sleeve?”)
The entire faith begins with a repudiation of everything it defines as outside its axioms as low and unworthy (“There is no god but God”, or by implication, “No deity is worthy of worship but God”). It should hardly come as a surprise, then, that anyone who “testifies” to this “truth” must necessarily, as a corollary, not just opt out of, but actively oppose any “respect,” symbolic or otherwise, for any “other.”
Mr. Bharati does not hedge. His essays command the reader’s attention from the get-go… The way he gets to the heart of any question that stirs his consciousness is staggering. This article of his, too, like many earlier ones, bears testimony to what a fine mind he is. Armed with a deep knowledge of Islam, its history and of the psyche of the faithful, he presents his arguments so logically and with such authenticity that only those not enough knowledgeable or out-and-out intransigent would have the courage to be on at him.
Mr. Bharati does not hedge. His essays command the reader’s attention from the get-go… The way he gets to the heart of any question that stirs his consciousness is staggering. This article of his, too, like many earlier ones, bears testimony to a fine mind that he is. Armed with a deep knowledge of Islam, its history and of the psyche of the faithful, he presents his arguments so logically and with such authenticity that only those not enough knowledgeable or out-and-out intransigent would have the courage to be on at him.
The central question of the article is trite (“Would their theology, ideology, religious discourse, political narrative, and societal restrictions let them wear Ram’s love on the sleeve?”)
The entire faith begins with a repudiation of everything it defines as outside its axioms as low and unworthy (“There is no god but God”, or by implication, “No deity is worthy of worship but God”). It should hardly come as a surprise, then, that anyone who “testifies” to this “truth” must necessarily, as a corollary, not just opt out of, but actively oppose any “respect,” symbolic or otherwise, for any “other.”