Goethe, the greatest of German poets, speaking about the Holy Quran declared that, "This book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence." This is also the reason why George Bernard Shaw says, "If any religion has a chance or ruling over England, say, Europe, within the next 100 years, it is Islam".
By Prof. K. S. Ramakrishna Rao, Head of the Department of Philosophy, Government College for Women University of Mysore, Mandya-571401 (Karnatika).Re-printed from "Islam and Modern a
Its astonishing to see the size and speed of comments pouring in for this post. And unfortunately, most of the comments have been outright malignant, hateful, vicious and accusatory. Maybe Shahid's father tried to save face by adopting a patriotic/nationalist face, or maybe he just felt outrage at being related to someone who played a part in a dastardly act; why cannot we take things for what they are and not offload truck-loads of mindless hatred here? Why do we need to make a hero or villain out of Shahid's father?
