I hope that noone misinterpreted my "answer" to Mr. Ravi before. He is a very good (Internetfriend and) friend.
I work with media, and therefore i go deep into texts, I am not religious into one main stream, but more of a "seeker",
and I am actually very interested in
what are the similar points and also totally different such between the two world religions Hinduism (which the name for thousands of different practices in India) and Islam.
I do think that Islam has to stand up to a lot of questions,
just as the New Age or any other fresh religious flow. And there are societies suffering from lack of clarity in these scriptures. So allow us to ask questions!
All (!) I wish is that there would be less bombings...I am not sure of how that will happen, but at least 2talk about things" is all we have.
I did shut my mouth for many years, and I'm sure there were people who thought this a good way, but I cannot allow myself this torture.
It ia true that in hindu society women have been killed by parents-in-Law, it's also true that hindu parents have sold their children to old men , "arranged marriages" in its most grim forms. But the same thing has been allowed in families of muslim faith.
I read a novel (don't laugh - I know she is famous and her book as well) who was brought up in a nomadic Extended family in northern Africa. The women of her clan cut her female organ to pieces and then closed her up so that she could not have a period. She almost died, and this was an old tradition, I know similar things happened and still happen to young girls.
And of course, in "Western" culture a woman who has education has to more or less prostitute herself to have a say in Male dominated Outer world. But so is feminism in at least northern Europe (probably countrieslike US too) more and more including men, who become parts of the female dilemma.
I can wear a bikini on a beach or I can cover every part of me - it all depends on the culture I am in.
I can wear a tie or a skirt, or both. This is western culture, but I'm sure muslim society has equivalences to our "Gay culture" or/and also fascination with East. Orientalism is annoying in many ways, but actually a bridge between the two worlds as I see it.
I see ethnicity being the good side of the same coin as racism. Color and exotic flavor does challenge and thrill people in the west.
I am with one leg on East side (father with Indian roots) and the other on Scandinavian ground.
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