{"id":9165,"date":"2010-01-25T04:55:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T04:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/01\/zakir-naik-shekhar-gupta-and-how-their-walks-talk\/"},"modified":"2010-01-25T04:55:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T04:55:20","slug":"zakir-naik-shekhar-gupta-and-how-their-walks-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/01\/zakir-naik-shekhar-gupta-and-how-their-walks-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Zakir Naik, Shekhar Gupta and how their walks talk!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Someone asks a question of an Islamic preacher who has been referred to as a \u201cRock Star\u201d and a person who preaches \u201cModern Islam\u201d.  He is asked,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Muslims can contruct their places of religion in Non-Muslim countries, then why aren\u2019t Non-Muslims allowed to construct Churches and Temples in Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A fair question.. right?<\/p>\n<p>So what is his answer?  Well, he says, if you were to look for a Maths teacher for your school, and you pose him a question \u2013 what is 2+2?  If one says 3, the other says 6 and the third says 4\u2026 whom will you hire?  Similarly, we in Islam know that Islam is the ONLY \u201cTrue\u201d religion.. so, we don\u2019t let anyone propogate in our countries.  Non-Muslims can live there and keep it in their minds, but not speak about it.  Just as you won\u2019t let the guys who answered 3 or 6 teach.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani interviewer, on his part, tries to say that isn\u2019t it double standards?  But our moderate, champion of Modern Islam just shuts him up.  And now, if you watch the video completely, you will hear a voice of reason after the question and answer.  That voice is of an Ahmediyya.  Ahmediyyas are considered blasphemous BY LAW (passed by ZA Bhutto) in Pakistan.  Their only \u201ccrime\u201d is they say another prophet came in late 1800s.  So, in Pakistan, if someone accuses an Ahmediyya of calling his place of worship \u201cMasjid\u201d, he can be killed.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the answer by Zakir Naik.  What he seems to be saying is that JUST because people from other religions <em>allow<\/em> Muslims and others to practice and propogate their religion in their country.. just by that virtue itself, these Non-Muslims have prima facie admitted that they are \u201cconfused\u201d about the True Religion.  Because, his logic goes, if they were so certain of their own religion, they would throw all others out (including Muslims, I guess?).<\/p>\n<p>What kind of a humanity is such a voice giving shape to?  A fundamentalist, fanatic, and animalistic?!<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you think I have arbitrarily picked a Taliban backing Mullah for maligning Islam.. then watch the \u201cWalk the Talk\u201d where he is the guest of Shekhar Gupta.. who calls him \u201cRock Star of TV Evangelism\u201d and face of Modern Islam.  <\/p>\n<p>Of course, such programs do not add anything to the stature of idiots like Naik, but they definitely say a lot of Shekhar Gupta, his channel and the media in general.  As to what offends them and what does not!   This is a rather telling example. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ij09uKHgeww&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Part II<\/a> of the interview).<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, one should pause to think as to where we are going.  People are never bad or to be hated.. even this guy Zakir Naik.  Hating such people or even murdering such fanatics will not change anything.  Aurangzebs, Bin Ladens, Zakir Naiks etc will keep coming.  Somewhere reformation and rethink is necessary.  Are we even willing to be humans?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone asks a question of an Islamic preacher who has been referred to as a &#8220;Rock Star&#8221; and a person who preaches &#8220;Modern Islam&#8221;.  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