From: zxs6373@usl.edu (Siddiqui Zafar)
Subject: Re: Why did Muhammad Break Temples
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:39:02 GMT

In article <1gen2iINN3dv@tamsun.tamu.edu> gagrawal@cs.tamu.edu (Gopal Agrawal) writes:
>In article <1992Dec13.054849.25815@usl.edu> zxs6373@usl.edu (Siddiqui Zafar) writes:
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>>the unity of God. How can a multitude of idols be considered as Allah.
>>Its ridiculous! 
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>>Towards understanding each other,
>>
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>The above 2 statements seem to be a kind of contradiction. You have 
>already judged something as ridiculous without even trying to understand
>it !  
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>The answer to "How can a multitude....Allah?" is pretty simple and not 
>at all ridiculous.  The multitude of idols ARE NOT considered equivalent
>to Allah. They are based on polytheistic religions and not monotheistic.
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Gopal please refer to the article below. Kuram Narayana wrote "But if Allah
is one, why did not mohammad consider that all the idols are nothing but
Allah". 

It is to this line that I gave a reply as "It is very obvious that you fail 
to understand the concept of the unity of God. How can a multitude of idols
be considered as Allah". And since the suggestion by Kuram was nothing short
of being ridiculous I wrote "Its ridiculous".

I think you failed to go through the article to which I was replying.

Yes. Quite true! The multitude of idols ARE NOT considered equivalent to Allah.
They are based on polytheistic religions and not monotheistic.

Towards understanding each other,

Zafar

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In article <Bz5I1n.5uE@cs.psu.edu> narayana@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Kuram T Narayana) writes:
>In article <1992Dec10.202832.119630@marshall.wvnet.edu> yea027@marshall.wvnet.edu writes:
>>In Response to an article on the Indian net:
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>>Please tell me which temples Muhammad broke? I really am not familiar with
>>this.  Muhammad broke IDOLS so to get people to worship the one ALLAH that has
>>no partners.  Idol worship takes people from the true path of GOD Allah 
>>and takes them to polytheism and thinking that a statue can help them.
>>
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>Actually there is a parallel to this! We have one dravidian racist known as
>EVR and his followers who went and broke the idols in temples. But they
>were doing it to show their hatred for Brahmins. Was this idol breaking
>by mohammad some sort of hate release exercise of him and his followers.
>But if allah is one, why did not mohammad consider that all idols are
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>nothing bu t allah. What is this excuse that you are offereing for
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>mohammad who went and broke idols.
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>>A Mosque is a holy house of Allah.  When Muhammad went to the Ka'ba, he DID not
>>distroy the Ka'ba that housed the mutliple 'gods' but rather tore down the
>>idols that stood in it.
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>>>The "Kaaba"(the cubical structure) was built by Prophet Ibrahim and 
>>>his son Ismael for the worship of the one true God. It was built as 
>>>a symbol of monotheism. But in the succeeding centuries, the people 
>>>deviated from the Abrahimic (Islamic) religion and placed the idols in the 
>>>Kaaba. So it was logical that the house of Allah be cleansed of the objects
>>>which are in total contradiction of monotheism, the belief in the unity of
>>>God. It is very obvious that you failed to understand the concept of 
>>>the unity of God. How can a multitude of idols be considered as Allah.
>>>Its ridiculous! 

>>>However I would like to make it very clear that Islam does not sanction
>>>the destruction of the places of worship of other religion. In the case of
>>>the "Kaaba" it wasn't the place of worship for anyone other than Allah so
>>>it had to be cleared of the idols which are opposed to the concept of 
>>>unity of God.

>>>Towards understanding each other,

>>>Zafar.
>..kt