Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: RE: Why did Muhammad Break Temples
From: yea027@marshall.wvnet.edu
Date: 10 Dec 92 20:28:32 -0500
Organization: Marshall University

In Response to an article on the Indian net:

>Why did Mohamad Break Temples?
>Because He wanted to prove that There is nothing
>especial in the stone that we pray, there is nothing
>great in the walls. 

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.

>If that is true, why cannot a mosque be broken?
>If you tend to answer that it is because it hurt
>the people, then that applied against Mohamad also.

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.

>I feel that the attack on Hindus in Bangladesh is 
>totally un called for. 
The true answer, dear friend, is that Muslims need to show the rest of the
world that they are not lost sheep waiting for wolves to devour them.  What is
happening in the world in fear of Allah's religion is heinous.  People are 
afraid
of the true word being spread because it would put an end to all the corruption
that our world faces.  Uncalled for?  So the destroying of a Mosque in India
was called for?  The distruction of life in Kashmir is called for?  I'm sick
and tired of hearing about women being raped in Kashmir and Bosnia by
non-Muslims.  I am sick and tired of crying everytime I hear about another
woman who has been sodomized.  I am sick and tired of people taking the over
hand on Muslims just because they have chosen to follow a straight path.  And I
am not the only one who is sick and tired of it.  Pakistanis are tired of it. 
Bangladeshis are tired of it.  Afghans are tired of it.  How long can we sit
back and let these kinds of heinous, atrocious, gruesome acts to contine?  How
long?  

>Islam is a great religion.

Indeed it is.  Islam does not ask for people to kill each other.  But Muslims
ARE called to protect the true word of God and to protect one another.
>Is the the time God is testing you muslims,
Indeed you are right and in this test the Muslims must not fail.  Hindus have
already been comitting atrocious acts against Muslims in Kashmir and if the
problem goes unanswered, rather than taking it as a gesture of kindness, people
will take it as the wimpiness of Muslims.  No matter what Muslims do, the
world's eyes are on them so they could point fingers, "Oh, see what the Muslim
did."  There is no satisfying people, therefore Muslims can no longer live to
satisfy non-Muslims.

> if you
>people are really pray Allah or the Mosque.

Let us not forget that Muslims do not pray TO a Mosque, but rather IN a Mosque. 
It is a place where people gather for brotherhood/sisterhood. It is a place
where people come together to worship together.

> It is
>the time Allah is testing you if you value a Broken
>mosque more then Human life.

Human life is also those people who have watched the house of Allah come down at
the hands of blood thirsty fiends.  Human life is also does 2500 Muslims who
have been scared so much by this grotesque act that they have left their homes. 
How do we answer to that human life when I'm sure they are crying tears of
blood as every human should be doing for the lack of respect that has been
displayed in this situation.


>My only word to muslims who who are killing Hindus,
>or are claiming the death of India is that you are
>failing the test of  Allah. Be care full before
>you say such thing, You may go to hell just for that.

Incorrect.  We Muslims will go to Hell for standing by and watching other
Muslims be anhilated.  Everywhere you read, people who are afraid of Islam are
killing Muslims right and left.  When the whole world stands by and says, "Oh,
how sad", SOMEONE has to do something.  When Muslims don't do anything in
respect of the United Nations or some other autocratic group, then the press
write, "Islam is failing the Muslims in Bosnia".  When someone does take up
arms to go defend the rights of helpless people, then they are labled Muslim
fundamentalists who kill people.


May Allah end the injustice in this cruel world.  I pray that anyone who calls
for human rights, peace, and love toward one another is as disgusted as I am
with the
hatred that has been shown againt Muslims in India and around the world.
Upon asking my Hindu friend what the position of Hinduism is on non Hindus, she
gave me a little peace of a book to read.
Let me quote something from that book,
"God has made different religions to suit different aspirations, times, and
countries.  All doctrines are only so many paths; but a paths i by no means God
himself....Everyone should follow his own religion..."
If this is what the Hindu believes, then what do Hindus think they are doing
distroying Mosques and killing Muslims in Kashmir?  Why all the hatred against
Muslims in India?  And why should this kind of hatred be tolerated by
ANYONE????

Mariam