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Religious Sentiments V/s Freedom Of Expression
Pakistan banned facebook and youtube for blasphemous materials. Facebook had a page with title-’Draw Muhammad Day’ which made Pakistan court ban facebook. Later it banned youtube too , citing blasphemous videos as reason. The facebook page has sparked protest by Muslims all across the globe while Pakistan being only country (as of now) to have banned this site. This has sparked debate of freedom of speech v/s religious sentiments. Does freedom of speech gives license to hurt sentiments of people who believe in their faith and get offended by it?. Does being believer in one’s own faith give license to threaten anyone? Let us first see various incidents where people were killed or death threat were either made or people were dragged to court because of hurt of religious sentiments : 1) M.F.Hussain : He drew … Read entire article »
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Now Fatwa For Educating Muslim Girls
It is season of fatwas for largest muslim seminary in India , Darul Uloom of Deoband. Answering to various question posted to them from various people ,all across India , deoband is coming up with new fatwas everyday. First they had fatwa for working women in which they called for using veil in office and not mingle with male colleagues. This fatwa was slammed by liberal muslims like javed akhtar. Liberals in every religion are more focused towards essence of religion than traditions and liberals are always threatened by so called religious followers who get confused with religion and tradition. Javed akhtar too received threat for his comments of fatwa for working women. After fatwa for working women , deoband issued another fatwa against birthday celebrations. According to them such celebrations are jews … Read entire article »
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My God Is Better Than your God
Religion since thousands of years has definitely played very important part in lives of human beings. The first temple is believed to be as old as 11,500 years.Evacuation is underway and this had led to hypothesis called ‘First Temple , then city’. Idea of god , what after death , how earth was created , why live on earth and such things have been part and parcel of human brain since thousands of years. Time and again human’s zeal of getting answers to such questions has led to many scientific discoveries as well as evolution of philosophical thoughts and religion. Religion has had immense contribution in human race. Religion has immense contribution in smooth functioning of social system. Somebody had asked an eminent scholar (atheist) that “Do we need religion”. To every one’s … Read entire article »
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Does Religion Needs Protection?
As I was on my way back to home from office , I saw a car which had sticker that read ‘xyz religion is in danger, awaken to protect it’ . This led me think that does religion needs protection?. Be it be any religion , most believe in source called god. Source which created entire universe and all species. Source which itself came as avtaar (in hindusim) or sent a prophet (as in Islam) or himself came as jesus (as in christianity) . God established a system called religion which had moral , social norms and rules. How to pray , rituals , social systems , sin ,duties and many such things. Now almost all faiths also have holy books and all three major faiths believe in second coming. While chrisitianity … Read entire article »
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