Re: [nukkad] The veil

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Thank you all for the comments, none of which were unexpected, by the
way. I am no great shakes when it comes to practising Islam. As a
Bohra, I am a more liberal version of the average Sunni Muslim, who is
the target of most of the barbs of our Nukkad friends here. In
response to what Maloy said about using Arabic, why, what is wrong in
having a religion-wide lingua franca? It makes things so much more
easy to understand, discuss and follow. In fact, often, the finer
nuances of a word's meaning are lost in translation, as our friend T.
Vasudevan's son wrote in his veda mail.

As to Guptaji's response, what else could be expected of our
one-of-the-two resident poets but a poem! LOLZ. Sir responds either
with a poem or with legalese ... so much so that I have become a
master at figuring out whose mail it is if it is couched in legalese
or contains something with meter and verse!! (Easy to delete without
clicking on details when I am not in a mood to read his verse, :-))

Rohit, you are right. Even I feel that Islam needs to modernise, magar
kya karein? How to ditch a book that is purportedly directly received
from the Almighty? Do you ever see Muslims giving up that basic tenet
of their religion? Would you, as a Jain, renounce Mahavir? Would a
Hindu ever agree to remove Ganesh or Shiva from the pantheon of
Devtaas? It is that bad, and therein lies the irony of Islam and its
lack of progress.

I posted that article just to show you what a deep kind of thinking
goes into the generation of a particular idea or tenet of a religion.
I was astonished to see so many ways of looking at the subject of
Hijaab.

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