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- From: suresh@papaya.iss.nus.sg (Suresh Thennarangam - Research Scholar)
- Subject: Re: ARAB UNITY
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.054140.4066@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- Reply-To: suresh@iss.nus.sg (Suresh Thennarangam - Research Scholar)
- Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:41:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.162550.1797@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> rached@sample.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rached Zantout) writes:
- >In article <BxMvs4.B01@unix.amherst.edu>, ddsokol@unix.amherst.edu (D. DANIEL SOKOL) writes:
- >>
- >> How should Christian Lebanese feel about Islamic Unity where Christians will
- >> undoubtedly be discriminated against and persecuted for their religious
- >> beliefs.
- >> Danny Sokol-Amherst Colleg
- >Danny,
- >
- >Please before saying something about 1 billion people and their tolerance towards
- >other religions please study history. How can you be certain that Christians will
- >be persecuted and discriminated against in an Islamic State ?
- >Did you study the Islamic law regarding Non-Muslims in an Islamic State ?
-
- Will you enlighten us about "Jizya", which was a religious tax extracted from
- Non-Muslims by the Islamic Mughal empire which ruled over parts present-day
- India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in the name of Islam ?
-
- "Jizya" I believe is an Urdu word but I'm not sure how to say it in Arabic.
-
- >Did you study the history of Non_Muslims in an Islamic State ?
-
- The Only Mughal emperor whom all Indians readily praise was Emperor Akbar
- who was secularist. All the devoutly Islamic Mughal Emperors like Babur,
- Humayan, and Aurangzeb are remembered with anger and scorn by people of
- other religions because of the persecution and humiliation their ancestors
- had to bear for their religious beliefs.
-
- Perhaps you would like to hear about the Parsee community which is India's
- most prosperous community ... they are fire-worshippers who were expelled
- from Persia(modern-day Iran) en-masse( to stay back would have meant either
- death or conversion) by the Islamic rulers about 400(??) years ago and who
- found hospitality and shelter in India and the freedom to practice their
- beliefs... the Parsi community is probably the best educated and most
- prosperous community in the world, man for man..
-
- Perhaps you would like to know that there are hundreds of thousands
- of refugee Chakmas(Buddhists) in India who have fled to escape death
- and persecution from the Muslims in Bangladesh and refuse any attempt
- by India to repatriate them preferring to be shot rather than go back.
-
- Not to say that Islam encourages such persecution of course but the fact is
- it evokes the kind of fanaticism that gives rise to such behaviour. In this
- respect, Islam scarcely differs from Christianity(witness the Spanish
- Inquisition) or Judaism.
-
-
-
- >I refer you to the history of Jews in Spain and how their golden age was under
- >the Muslims and how they were persecuted along with Muslims by the spanish
- >inquisition (sp?)
- >
- >
- >rached
-
-
- /Suresh
-