Terry Jones, a pastor of a Florida church in the US proposed to Burn-the Qur‘an’ on September 11 but he called it off under a varied pressure. However Islamists all over the world selectively used the news and incited use of violence. A mosque in J&K showed an Iranian TV clip, which eventually resulted in the burning of a 150-year-old Christian run school. Ironically, the school library had many copies of the Quran. Another point to note was that the school had only Muslim students. Needless to say, those copies of Quran were burnt down. Now think about it. The act caused due to a Quran burning rumor, resulted in actual burning of the Quran. It would take a bard of the caliber of Shakespeare to think of such an ironic tragedy.
Every action has equal and opposite reaction", says Newton's third law. In case of the Muslims, every action seems to have multiple times the opposite reaction. The school burning was one such examples. But with the Hindus, the reaction is at the other extreme. Those who draw comparisons between Hindu violence against Christians and extreme Muslims atrocities should remember that even the gruesome murder of 84 years old Swami Laxmanand Saraswati in Orissa only sparked some sporadic riots but NO SCHOOLS WERE BURNT. To compare the two reactions is a futile exercise in extremely wayward political correctness and imbalanced interpretation.
A Harvard human rights journal, under the chapter “Religion as Identity” says “While religion as belief emphasizes doctrines, religion as identity emphasizes affiliation with a group. In this sense, identity religion is experienced as something akin to family, ethnicity, race, or nationality. Identity religion thus is something into which people believe they are born rather than something to which they convert after a process of study, prayer, or reflection”.
Well this burning of the school by the Kashmiri Muslims was definitely akin to that of Pakistani’s. This is not the Indian way!!
Kashmir: principal of fire-ravaged Christian school speaks out
"The crowd grew until 15-20,000 people marched on to the school, which is just one kilometre and half away from where the gathering took place. When they arrived, they began vandalising the building, and then set it on fire. The whole three-storey structure with 26 classrooms, library, and computer labs burnt down to the ground.
Ironically, our library had various copies of the Qur‘an. In half an hour, the building was gone since it was made of wood."
The article can be read at:
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Kashmir:-principal-of-fire-ravaged-Christian-school-speaks-out-19462.html
Every action has equal and opposite reaction", says Newton's third law. In case of the Muslims, every action seems to have multiple times the opposite reaction. The school burning was one such examples. But with the Hindus, the reaction is at the other extreme. Those who draw comparisons between Hindu violence against Christians and extreme Muslims atrocities should remember that even the gruesome murder of 84 years old Swami Laxmanand Saraswati in Orissa only sparked some sporadic riots but NO SCHOOLS WERE BURNT. To compare the two reactions is a futile exercise in extremely wayward political correctness and imbalanced interpretation.
A Harvard human rights journal, under the chapter “Religion as Identity” says “While religion as belief emphasizes doctrines, religion as identity emphasizes affiliation with a group. In this sense, identity religion is experienced as something akin to family, ethnicity, race, or nationality. Identity religion thus is something into which people believe they are born rather than something to which they convert after a process of study, prayer, or reflection”.
Well this burning of the school by the Kashmiri Muslims was definitely akin to that of Pakistani’s. This is not the Indian way!!
Kashmir: principal of fire-ravaged Christian school speaks out
"The crowd grew until 15-20,000 people marched on to the school, which is just one kilometre and half away from where the gathering took place. When they arrived, they began vandalising the building, and then set it on fire. The whole three-storey structure with 26 classrooms, library, and computer labs burnt down to the ground.
Ironically, our library had various copies of the Qur‘an. In half an hour, the building was gone since it was made of wood."
The article can be read at:
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Kashmir:-principal-of-fire-ravaged-Christian-school-speaks-out-19462.html
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