Thanks Dr. Bain. I was given the Koran as gift by a couple of my friends. My friends wanted to open my eyes so that I can see what exactly is written in the Koran. I have hardly any time or temperament to read the entire book from the beginning to the end. I have general idea what are written in holy scriptures.
Stubborn as I am, I still believe that by trashing the holy scriptures in their entirety you will only isolate yourself from the society and that way will fail to participate in a greater movement to oppose and frustrate the evil designs by the forces of darkness which of course include ISIS.
The Koran is Koran. To me like any other holy scriptures, it is a historical document. Any attempt to trash or rewrite it will be totally unproductive given the consciousness levels of the believers. This is true for any religion. Jefferson rewrote the Bible. That's it. The Christians do not follow his rewritten Bible. I am happy as long as the followers are using religion in progressive way. Only thing we can do is enlighten people through education. Socioeconomic conditions have also to be improved.
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On Nov 29, 2014, at 7:59 AM, Sukhamaya Bain subain1@yahoo.com [mukto-mona] <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
I am posting this in honor of Professor Subimal Chakrabarty for the following post in which he stated, "my knowledge about the Koran is extremely limited.":In this information age, learning about almost anything is possible and free. The following translation of the Koran was certified to be authentic by a religious Muslim friend of mine:I hope Professor Chakrabarty would read it, and randomly talk about what are in the Koran. Selecting verses that sound great to praise the religion would be dishonest and a disservice to humanity, especially when too many followers of Islam, including the Islamic State barbarians, try to follow everything. To too many followers, everything in the Koran and Hadit are to be followed, irrespective of where that would take the world/humanity. (Of course, they follow without thinking; they do not have the capacity to think logically.)To me, Najrul. Rabindranath, Gandhi, and many other intellectuals/philosophers/politicians were wrong when they talked about selected good parts of Islam, especially when they failed to ask people to discard the parts that can be used to make the world hell.I am not interested in opening up anyone's holy book to criticize it; I want the followers themselves to try to open up their minds, to do the criticizing themselves, and to be able discard what should be discarded.Sukhamaya Bain
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