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by Humsafar » Thu Jul 10, 2014 2:31 pm
Wow Rebel, what a rant. Do you even realise how insecure and intolerant and cut-up you sound? All one needs to do is scratch the surface and all the pretences go out the window.
I do not want to start a India-Pakistan slanging match here, we have enough of it already everywhere else. Nor I'm going to argue that India is better that Pakistan or vice versa, these are pointless arguments. We all form opinions from our unique experiences and conditioning. But I will say this, there is not much difference between religious bigotry and nationalist bigotry. All governments - democratic or otherwise - are frauds, they are rigged to work in the interest of the rich and powerful. Don't believe their propaganda that they work for the people. They do not. RAW is as much to be blamed as ISI. The interest of the rich are the same everywhere, and they rule by dividing the people in the name of religion, race, nationalism and what not. And people like us, the so-called educated and liberal, blindly buy into their propaganda. There are fewer things worse than being a flag-waving, chest-thumping jingoist.
If the Bohra mafia clergy has become like a Hindu cult, why blame Hindus for it? The mafia clergy has deliberately used these practices to enslave people. Besides, try not to confuse "cultural" influences with religion. Muslims everywhere in the world in one way or the other have been influenced by the cultural and social norms of countries they live in. They do not become less of a muslim because of that.
You seriously think Pakistan is an "Islamic State"? Do you even know what it means?
Yes there are different paths to God, Islam being one of them, and maybe it is important that which path one chooses. But my objection was to the way you were disparaging the "bhajans" and "Hindu land" with so much contempt. I was pointing out your intolerance and your hatered, nothing more.