When i saw the title of this column, i hoped it was a good article to read. However it is almost a crap! For telling a truth one needs to be bold!aND Mr Sengupta is not bold enough to come out with a factual article! Every major religion in this world teaches universal brotherhood except islam. The post islamic world has seen so much of bloodshed on the name of islam. It is not an allegation but a truth. Read the history by the then islamic historians like the one accompanying Md. Gazni. Basicalyy what we need today is a debate over religions and any religion which propogates hatred must be exposed!
Which part of india have you visited that you claim that cast system is practised? cast system cannot be practised as such, this is a system wherein people are diffrenctiated on the basis on what work they do. for e.g in any organisation there is one CEO few directored some managers and then executives, what is wrong in this system that you are crying foul? pls understand the fact, can you suggest any other way of system? hindu religion is the religion where people are differentiated on the basis of job they do and it is good for the socity also, what will happen if you put an executive on CEO's post? ofcourse in due course of time executive can become CEO, but there is nothing wrong in having different class of people so that they do what they can do best, an contribute towards a larger goal.
RE:Religion
by elizabeth varghese on Dec 19, 2005 06:17 PM Permalink
i would like to point out that you have not understood history in its wholesome nature. what about the inhuman caste system which was practised by upper caste hindus. what about the periodic genocide of palestinians indulged in by israel with the support of a christian country. i can quote any number of examples. my point is why select out islam only.
RE:Religion
by Arun on Dec 20, 2005 03:38 PM Permalink
Elizabeth! I don't know in which part of world u do live. However citing example of caste system shows ur grave ignorance about Hinduism. In this system though the condition of Shudras was not good, it was perhaps much better than those of slaves which other communities used. Anyway , caste system has no relevance in the present Hindu society except matrimony and vote bank politics. There were atrocities on human being by many of the religions but it is a past now. All the religions have now got reformed except ISLAM.This is the reason i pointed it out. Please refer www.faithfreedom.org and u will understand the real matter.
be impartial
by elizabeth varghese on Dec 21, 2005 06:00 PM Permalink
i was amused by the responses to my reply to Arun's opinion. in my message i have criticised all religions. but it has led to the fanatical self-defence of the evil practices in one's own religion. as if i selected out hinduism alone! caste system denied the basic fundamental human rights to most people. even now in many backward villages of india it is being practised.
caste system
by Vijaya Kumar on Dec 20, 2005 02:58 AM Permalink
Elizbeth, Caste system in one form or the other is practiced by all peoples of the world. There was nothing inhuman about it. It had its advantages. It was not slavery. It was never as horrible as sending Christians to fight the lions and tigers, or Christians burning witches and having hersays and inquisitions or Muslims ravaging lands. Every society has its faults, while you want all Hindus to be faultless, you are unknowingly justifying the ravages of others religions because some one else has also done. I live in a Christian country where slavery was followed and discrimination was legal. Hindus did more to rectify the past than any other culture did. The reliion is not going to go away. Among them, still with all its faults, Hindu and its offshoots Buddhist and Jains are the most tolerent and amending religions. Vijaya Kumar
