Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 10:20 pm:

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Tilak:

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Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 03:01 pm:

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Unlike Hinduism, Islam is a faith of dogmas and doctrines. Every Muhammadan must believe not only in the existence of God without a second (La Allah Il Allah) but also that Muhammad was His prophet ,and that the Quran is his final word. He must also believe, according to the orthodox school, that Muhammad was the last of the prophets and whatever he said and did is binding on all his faithful followers. There have been expounders of Islam who have tried to raise it to a kind of high occultism, but their efforts have not met with any considerable success, and Islam remains, to all intents and purposes, with the majority of its followers, what it has been all through centuries past. My Muslim friends will pardon me if I venture to say that too great an insistence on dogma has been the bane of Islam, the cause of its political downfall, and that unless it is given up, it will stand in the way of Islam ever regaining its lost position as a world-wide political factor. Islam is as much divided and sub-divided into sections and factions as Christianity once was and perhaps to this day is.

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Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 02:57 pm:

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Getafix:

nijanni grahinchatam lo.. very few in his position will accept the truth as it is..andulo rocks! Oka leader ki aa quality is must and should!

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Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 02:51 pm:

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Tilak:

how? when he is doing penance or meditation .. he is not a leader but a saint!

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Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 02:49 pm:

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Siloan:

vignud appud seppad gottam gallu few years back expanded....so paatha sindagaaya bachhadi....

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Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 02:41 pm:

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Siloan:

ofcourse cultural level daaniki Lala sodarud daaka enduku..last few years incidents soosthe ardham avvadam la...AP lo

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I have seen young Muslim gentlemen being vigorously attacked by Maulvis for daring to shave their beards, and all India saw the spectacle of a Muslim President attempting to stop the playing of instrumental music at an annual meeting of the National Congress.

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Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 02:39 pm:

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Getafix:

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Unhappily, during the last decade we have created an atmosphere which smells [[182]] more of orthodoxy and bigotry than of rationalism and toleration. The non-co-operation movement itself has materially contributed to the creation of this atmosphere. It was unfortunate that the Khilafat movement in India should have taken its stand on a religious rather than political basis. There were political grounds to support it. It was still more unfortunate that Mahatma Gandhi and the leaders of the Khilafat movement should have brought religion into such prominence in connection with a movement which was really and fundamentally more political than religious.

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Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 02:36 pm:

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Getafix:

one more reason to say Bapu rocks!

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Getafix:

lala perspective ento telsukovali .. will read these for sure..

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Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 02:30 pm:

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Tilak:

gave him such a shock that he considered it his duty to undergo a penance for his misunderstanding and mishandling the Hindu-Muslim situation during the last three years. For the first time he felt miserable at the thought that he, who had striven his best to obtain Hindu cooperation for the saving of the Muhrnmadan "temple" Khilafat, had to see desecration of Hindu temples by tens, in most cases without any provocation, at the hands of Muhammadans. The sense of helplessness and disappointment generated by this shock impelled him to impose a purificatory penance of twenty-one days' fast on him[self], in the hope that whilst he purified himself of any sin that he might have committed unconsciously, he would be able to create an atmosphere which might give opportunities of improving Hindu-Muslim relations.

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Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 02:22 pm:

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Take, for example, the liberty of speech and the liberty of the press which are guaranteed by both the constitutions. Can anyone in his senses contend that either the French or the American Government is in the least deterred from curtailing these rights whenever it thinks it best in the interest of the nation to do so? I happened to be in the United States during the [First World] War, and I saw with my own eyes how the so-called fundamental rights guaranteed to the people by the constitution were taken away by them under one pretence or another, either by Federal Legislation or by the action of the Government.

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Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 02:11 pm:

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As regards Mahatma Gandhi's fast, it is an open secret that the desecration of Hindu temples, one after another, at Amethi, Gulbarga, Kohat, and, other places, and the tragedy of Kohat, gave him such a shock that he considered it his duty to undergo a penance for his misunderstanding and mishandling the Hindu-Muslim situation during the last three years. For the first time he felt miserable at the thought that he, who had striven his best to obtain Hindu cooperation for the saving of the Muhrnmadan "temple" Khilafat, had to see desecration of Hindu temples by tens, in most cases without any provocation, at the hands of Muhammadans. The sense of helplessness and disappointment generated by this shock impelled him to impose a purificatory penance of twenty-one days' fast on him[self], in the hope that whilst he purified himself of any sin that he might have committed unconsciously, he would be able to create an atmosphere which might give opportunities of improving Hindu-Muslim relations.

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