What I posted is factually correct aneeshm.
Your earlier comment is intellectual dishonesty and laziness at worst, and being economical with the truth at best, as you've shown us many times on here.
You mean ~ Derail your mission to show Muslims to be inhumane and Hindus holier than thou? How convenient your dictating of how the thread should develop is.
I thought whether it would be better to continue this over PMs, but I thought it better to duke it out in an open forum - all the better to pwn you publicly
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As usual, you barge in with the half-assed misrepresentations of my actual position. I asked a question regarding the founder of a religion. How does that equate to me being on a mission to show the adherents of that religion inhumane? It doesn't, but your worldview doesn't allow for anyone who can criticise a religion without hating it or its followers, does it?
And considering that I started this thread, I damn well have a right to dictate its flow!
I respond: That is what is written. What people do is another matter entirely.
And that is relevant how?
Hindu tradition often sees children being married well before puberty. In the time of Muhammad it happened. Today it happens, especially in rural parts. Your focussing on the text books alone is quite convenient and also misses the point, which happens more often than not in the cases of all religions, that people totally twist their holy texts in favour of a way they wish to lead their lives and shape their traditions.
That's not Hindu tradition, actually. That's a perverse tradition, originating in the Muslim period.
When the Muslims invaded India, they had the bad habit of raping unmarried girls. When they became established in India, Muslim aristocrats used to simply pick up any Hindu girl they liked and keep her as a concubine. They had the protection of the state, and the Hindus had no means of getting justice. Even the Muslims aristocracy of that time, however, wouldn't pick up married girls (at least without killing their husbands first, as Mohammed did).
To prevent this from happening, people married off their girls earlier and earlier, so that the invaders wouldn't rape them.
In case you want sources:
Google Link.
In hindsight, you wish you hadn't brought up this topic, don't you
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Judging a religion from some dusty tome is hardly an honest or inclusive way to evaluate it. It is how it is practised also that counts. Hindus fair just as poorly as Muslims in this regard.
WRONG. Whims of the moment are but passing. Fundamentals remain. And that's the only way to judge religion fairly.
Of course, the problem arises - how to judge Hinduism? It does not bind itself to any books, so any such comparison is meaningless. It depends not on any single prophet, so it cannot be judged on that ground. Hindu society is ever-evolving, based on the vision of its holy men, so you cannot select a period of time and say, "That was Hinduism". Books of law can be re-written, so going even by them is meaningless. Till date, I haven't found a satisfactory method of judging my own religion.
Yeah, and Hindus are supposed to follow the Arthashastra. But do they???
Wrong again. We are compelled to follow nothing except the dictates of our own conscience. We can, if we so want, re-write the lawbooks, and nobody will challenge our right to do so. Can a Muslim boast of the same freedom?
If there ever exists a double standard, it is this one. Absolutely magnificent.
When someone says that Islam is violent because of the actions of its adherents, people tell us to look at the texts. When we look at them, we find the same violence in them. So it is attributed to misinterpretation by fundamentalists. So we check up as to what the interpretation was throughout history. When that is also found to be violent, these people tell us that we should not go by the texts, but by what the majority of adherents does - describing a complete full circle!
And now that we want to attack Hinduism, you point out that uneducated Hindus do bad things. It is pointed out that the books do not sanction it. But no! Let's not judge by books, because what a minority of followers do is enough to condemn the religion, the actual religion be damned!
Hindus: bad because they don't follow their texts!
Muslims: good because they don't follow their texts!
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