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Culture of the land and religion of the people
by Manu on Oct 26, 2007 10:12 AM

Please understand the basic difference in hinduism and islam. Hindiusm is not a religion, it is a way of life (culture) of millions of people living in the land east to hindukush and west to Assam province, below Himalaya and up to sea coast deep in south. Hinduism never says you must have to accept the Shiva as you god. Even if anybody does not consider lard Shiva or Ram as his/her god, he/she does not not ceased to be a hindu. Hinduism allows a fair degree fo elasticity.Thats why hindus are seldom fanatic. The islam lacks this because of being a religion based on book. The second wrong thing with Sunni islam is that it destroys the local language and culture of the land and force them to adopt the Arabic culture. In Iran they adopted the Islam but never changed their great persian culture. Their name are still persian and their culture too. But in India the day you converts to islam, you will start behaving like an Arabic person without considering how great your language and old culture might be. It is not written in Quran to change you culture even if you chane your religion. But the taliban would not hesitate to destroy 2000 years of old Buddha idols in Afganistan.Actually when these barbaric arabic people could kill the daugher, son-in law and grand son of Muhammad in the name of Islam (Division of Shia and Sunni) they can do any thing. In Iran still they maintained their 5000 years old temples and did in Indonesia. I wonder why in India you people not consider the old

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