101. Why are we Muslims so self-destructive?

Comment #73302 by Nick Good on September 24, 2007 at 4:49 pm

The poorest Londoners loved Dickens, and he changed the way they imagined their lives; peasants were drawn to Gandhi because he helped them break out of mental bondage

Hardly! Sounds like revisionist romantic tosh to me. The half naked fakir, an in yer face Hindu and thus, by definition a divisive figure to non Hindus, a racist of note, a man that celebrated grinding poverty as a virtue, presided over the partition of India, and sectarian strife that resulted in over a million dead surrounding partition.

So he was hardly a unifying force. More, he was a complete economic illiterate; in no small part responsible for condemning India to nearly 50 years of leftist command economics that resulted in the condemnation of millions to rancid squalor, reflected in India's absolutely horrific social indicators....this has been the Ghandi legacy, the backdrop in India for the vast bulk of Indians since independence.

I don't think that qualifies as a break out of mental bondage.

102. Why are we Muslims so self-destructive?

Comment #73294 by Nick Good on September 24, 2007 at 4:36 pm

The effusive Michael Wood's BBC programme on the Mughal Emperor Akbar last week was a wonderful reminder of that enlightened period of our history

Or re-writing it...the Muslim or Mohgul invasions of India (which include present day Pakistan and Bangladesh), via Afghanistan; from Persia, resulted in perhaps 50 million Hindus being slaughtered.