Date: June 16th 2008

Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008 2:17 AM
From: "swamijyoti" swamijyoti@vivekanandagospel.org
To: "Asnani Prof GC Yahoo" <asnanigc@yahoo.com>;

Do Islam & Christianity Respect Other Religions?

DO ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY TEACH RESPECT

OR EVEN TOLERANCE FOR THE FOLLOWERS

OR WORSHIP-METHODS OF OTHER RELIGIONS?
-- Prof. G.C. Asnani

Every Religion has three aspects: a) Relationship between man and God; b) Relationship between man and other persons of the same Religion; c) Relationship between man and persons of other Religions. In respect of aspect 'c' of Religion (relationship between man and persons of other Religions), Islam and Christianity do not teach respect or even tolerance for the followers or worship-methods of other Religions. In simple language, they teach hatred and war against followers of other Religions, particularly against followers of Hindu religion. They teach that people of other religions are condemned and wretched ones whose Religions have to be destroyed and removed from the surface of the earth, who have got to be converted out of their religions by any means, even by slaughtering them, if necessary.

One will be surprised to find this teaching of Islam and Christianity, which teaching is quite contrary to what one learns as a member of Sacred Sanatana Hindu Dharma. But with the above revelation one can understand the origin and history of the World Wars I & II and also the history of Hindu-Muslim Conflicts, including the cause of sufferings of the Hindu community; and also the problems which have been developing in north-east India and elsewhere in the country, connected with Christian Missionaries.

We have to judge any Religion, not by what is done or proclaimed by a few individuals of that community, here and there. There will always be individuals in every religious community who would be noble or ignoble in their conduct. We should not be hasty in speaking about other religions in terms of the noble or ignoble conduct of a few persons of a community here and there. We should rather go by the following criteria:

i) Basic teachings of the Holy Quran in respect of Islam and the basic teachings of the Holy Bible in respect of Christianity; ii) The past histories of these Religions--Islam and Christianity; iii) The recent and current histories of Islam and Christianity.

My request to our revered Hindu Sadhus is not to speak much on Islam and Christianity until our Sadhus become more familiar with the ideology and history of Islam and Christianity with relation to Hinduism. The Slogans "Hindu-Muslim Bhai Bhai" or "Hindu-Christian Bhai Bhai" and "Islam, Christianity and Hinduism teach the same thing" are not doing good to Hindu Society. These slogans are misguiding Hindus; one-way traffic has been established from Hinduism to Islam and from Hinduism to Christianity. A number of Hindu girls are marrying Muslims and Christians. They correctly tell their parents, "Your religious Sadhus are declaring that all religions teach the same thing. Then why are you taking objection to our getting converted to Islam or Christianity?" Hindu parents have become helpless. They put the blame on Hindu Sadhus for teaching such things. Muslim Maulvis and Christian Padris never teach their followers that all religions teach the same thing. In fact, they teach hatr
ed and war against Hinduism.

My humble request to you revered Hindu Sadhus is that you may kindly study the teachings of Holy Bible and Holy Quran along with history of Christian Church and Islam and then decide whether it is right or wrong to declare before your Hindu audience that all religions teach the same thing.

Reason-wise, both Islam and Christianity are very weak, but in aggressiveness, both of them are very strong; they do not tolerate any questions.

Both Islam and Christianity have the following Common Beliefs:

1) God is jealous. Worship of God in the form of an Idol or any other Symbol like Sun, Moon, Stars, Earth, Ocean, Rivers, etc. is equivalent to worshipping somebody other than the One God. This arouses jealousy of the One God who inflicts severe punishment for this type of worship. Hindus who worship God in many forms including Nature, are the worst offenders according to Christianity and Mohammedanism. Hindus are called Heathens, Pagans, Condemned ones, infidels, idolaters, Kaffirs, etc., deserving severe punishment, torture and extermination wherever possible.

2) Christians and Muslims have both entered into Covenants with God, by which each religious community has received an Exclusive, Irrevocable Power of Attorney from God that its way of worship alone is right, that after death they alone will go to Heaven, others will go to Hell. Of course, the way of worship by Christians is different from that of Muslims. However, both communities claim Exclusive Rights. Believers of Islam become Non-Believers for Christianity and vice-versa.

3) This Heaven for Believers is eternal, and the Hell for Non-Believers is also eternal. Once in Heaven, their enjoyments are eternal; once in Hell, others' sufferings are also eternal.

4) There will come a Day of Judgement when all the dead ones will rise and stand before God to get the verdict of either Eternal Heaven or Eternal Hell.

In addition to their Common Beliefs, the Christians and Muslims have also their own special Beliefs. Some of those are outlined below………… (Read "Appeal to Hindu Sadhus" by Prof. G.C.ASNANI, Email: gcasnani@hinduvoice.net)