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Friday, June 8, 2012

Sultan Shahin responds to Ghulam Muhammed’s nightmare vision, Interfaith Dialogue, NewAgeIslam.com

Interfaith Dialogue
Sultan Shahin responds to Ghulam Muhammed’s nightmare vision

Merely condemning the miscreants who demolished the ex-mosque and abusing them and vowing “Masjid wahin banayenge” will not serve any purpose. It doesn’t seem to me to be a good idea to get pathologically fixated on the demolition of an ex-mosque, which was actually a functioning temple at the time of demolition, and forgetting that we have tens of thousands of functioning mosques and madrasas all over the country and are building new ones all the time.

The miscreants who demolished the ex-mosque claimed to be votaries of Hindutva but were not only anti-social, and anti-national but actually anti-Hindu: they gave Hinduism a bad name, sullied its image of peaceful demeanour and non-violence and tolerance built over several millennia and indeed made homeless Hazrat Ramchandra who, I understand, is now living in a tent, bereft of a roof over his head.

In any case, to many Muslims the image of idol-worship in a mosque-like building and indeed a 400- year old former mosque was more outrageous than its demolition. We must, however, try and move ahead. We cannot remain stuck in the Babri quagmire. One Karbala, and one Muharram is more than enough.

http://newageislam.com/sultan-shahin-responds-to-ghulam-muhammed%E2%80%99s-nightmare-vision--/interfaith-dialogue/d/882


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