I think it is because of ignorance which is fanned and propagated by those community leaders who are trying to show their "religion" as superior to others. Its basically an ego thing.
The Quran does not say that Jews have to be killed. The Prophet Muhammad himself said that the Jews of the B. ‘Auf are one community with the believers (the Jews have their religion and the Muslims have theirs). The Quran says:
You may find this article interesting. It is concerning the views of one of the most well known scholars of the Islamic world, namely, Imam Ghazali. I quote from it:
Those contradictions are resolved by understanding that the stories are having layers of meaning and have been misinterpreted and misunderstood. You may find this relevant.
What my initial point was that I fail to realize how Hinduism fits the definition when "its set of beliefs" is inclusive of all beliefs. In that sense, it includes all religions and hence the term religion itself loses meaning.
As I said before theological differences are bound to exist. The inner meaning (and the thrust) of the scriptures is what is to be compared. Those who seek to find unity on the theological scale may be disappointed. On the other hand those who are reading the scripture the way they were...
In continuation of the last point above some Muslim scholars who dont propose the thesis that the text of the Bible has been altered (obviously, in their opinion they are not in contradiction to the Quran or the Hadith)
1 Syed Ahmad Khan:
”As far as the text of the Bible is concerned, it...
The answer you are seeking is not canonical. Different Muslims believe in different things. The Quran or the Prophet Muhammad(pbuh) never point out any specific place of corruption.(You may read Chapter II here for more information). There is a tradition that the Prophet Muhammad asked his...
This is from something I posted long back on the forum regarding the concept of hell/heaven from a Sufi prespective.
Everything there is derives its existence from God. Man also has a part of him from this divine plane, and this part gives him an angst (which some can feel and some can) which...
Hi Madhuri,
What I mean is that the men and women of God following the Hindu traditions did not adopt this method of using linguistic, or archaeological tools to decide that their scriptures are different from non-Vedic scriptures, and hence such assumptions are a priory flawed. Rather the...
Ah! I dont quite agree with you there. I consider spiritual scriptures to be primarily analysed by the tools of esoterism and spiritual knowledge and the "fact" you quote to be only a superficial understanding of them.
At any rate, I do understand your point of considering Hinduism being an...