Brother
Razzak, let me address some of your points:
RS: “My father used say, if anyone
doesn't mistreat me or my faith. don't mistreat them, irrespective of his/her
race or religion. He also taught not to criticize other's faith. Same I learned
from Quran in course of time.”
SB: 1) I agree that people should not mistreat
other people. However, criticizing someone’s faith is not the same as mistreating
him/her; punishing a criminal for the crime he/she committed is not the same as
mistreating him/her. 2) I do not agree with him that people should not
criticize other people’s faith. I already gave you an example in my last post
where criticizing other’s faith is not only justified, it is needed. Let me add
that it would be better if people could criticize their own faiths and abandon their
own foolish and hateful faiths. 3) Have you really read the Quran? I have a
copy of that book in my collection; it surely has a lot of raw injustice and hatred
against non-believers. It is unjust against women, including Muslim women. (An
improvement from a worse barbarian tradition to a better but still barbarian
tradition cannot be argued to be great.)
RS: “You can't judge the faith by
judging it's followers.”
SB: I actually agree with you, and I judge Islam by
reading the Quran and the Hadits. However, judging Islam is not the point; the
point is what Muslims do with their faith in those books. The followers’
behaviors matter more than what the books say. That is why I say, “read your books,
follow what is good in them, and please abandon the injustice and hatred in
them.”
RS: “To me It's not the question of Rabindranath was against the Muslim or
not, my simple argument Robindronath isn't a Bangladeshi nor he was ever in
support of East Bengal more over, he is not different to HOMO Ershad, he was a
characterless thief. Why should we have to follow his ideology and establish
another certified brothels in Bangladesh.”
SB: I disagree with you on almost everything
you said above. Rabindranath was a human being and was not perfect; but the
kind of adjectives that you have used here tells me that you are in need of some
serious re-education. For example, a lot of great scholars of the world have a
lot of respect for Bishwa Bharati (which you implied to be like a brothel!).
RS:
“Current Muslims are truly lazy and deviated from their core educations.”
SB: I
am not clear as to what you mean by core education. But if it involves following
more of the Quran and Hadits, Muslims are doomed to remain in their sorry
state.
RS: “Not my father, my grand father and my great grand father too.”
SB:
Well, brother, sorry for misreading you last time. But, looking at your writing
in English and at the adjectives that you have used on the Nobel Laureate poet
and his institution, it is too difficult to believe that you came from an
educated family.
Wishing you all the best,
Sukhamaya Bain
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