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Puppets Of Faith Theory Of Communal Strife (A critical appraisal of Islamic faith, Indian polity ‘n more)

by: BS Murthy

Publication date: 2003

Topics: Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Muhammad,Islam, Islamic terrorism, radical Islam, fidayeen, women in Islam, sharia, Islamic invasions, Indian Muslims, Ancient India, Medieval India, Indian history, Aryan migration, Sanatana dharma, Hinduism, Hindutva, Mogul rule, British Raj, Colonial India, Indian independence, Indian partition, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indian politics, Indian Constitution, Indian secularism, India studies, Indology, Muslim appeasement, Abrahamic faiths, Semitic religions, Politics 'n religion, Social science, Political science, Logic and reasoning, Analytical thinking, Criticism, Historical, Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Ambedkar, Azad, Sonia Gandhi, Narendra Modi,, Hinduism, Muslims, India, communal, history

Collection: folkscanomy_religion; folkscanomy; additional_collections

Language: English

The sublimity of Muhammad's preaching in Mecca and the severity of his sermons in Medina make Islam a Janus-faced faith that forever bedevils the mind of the Musalmans.

This thought-provoking work, besides dissecting the anatomy of Islam, steeped in the Quran, seeks to depict the psyche of the Musalmans, shaped by the proclivities of their prophet, vicissitudes of his life and the attitudes of his detractors, which the mechanism of their umma perpetuates.

More to the point, aided by “I’m Ok – You’re Ok”, the path-breaking work of Thomas A. Harris and Roland E Miller’s “Muslim Friends–Their Faith and Feeling”, this book, for the first time ever, psycho-analyzes the imperatives of the Muslim upbringing, which has the potential to turn a faithful and a renegade alike into a fidayeen.

Also, apart from delving into the ironies of the faiths that affected the fate of the peoples, eclipsed the cultures of communes, altered the course of history and afflict the politics of the day, this book examines how the sanãtana 'Hindu' dharma came to survive in India, in spite of the combined onslaught of Islam and the Christianity on Hinduism for over a millennium.

This book is for those who wish to be aware of the follies of their faith and the foibles of others to lighten the burden of dogma and reduce the baggage of prejudice postulated in its thirty-five well-structured chapters.

Also, besides providing a panoramic view of the Indian history, this thought-provoking book appraises the way Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Azad, Ambedkar, Indira Gandhi, Narasimha Rao, Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, Narendra Modi et al made or unmade the post-colonial India.

Possibly in a new genre, this free ebook is a book for our times.

Contents

Preface of Strife

Chapters

1. Advent of Dharma

2. God’s quid pro Quo

3. Pyramids of Wisdom

4. Ascent to Descent

5. The Zero People

6. Coming of the Christ

7. Legacy of Prophecy

8. War of Words

9. Czar of Medina

10. Angels of War

11. Privates of ‘the God’

12. Playing to the Gallery

13. Perils of History

14. Pitfalls of Faith

15. Blinkers of Belief

16. Shackles of Sharia

17. Anatomy of Islam

18. Fight for the Souls

19. India in Coma

20. Double Jeopardy

21. Paradise of Parasites

22. The Number Game

23. Winds of Change

24. Ant Grows Wings

25. Constitutional Amnesia

26. The Stymied State

27. The Wages of God

28. Delusions of Grandeur

29. Ways of the Bigots

30. The Rift Within

31. The Way Around

32. The Hindu Rebound

33. Italian Interregnum

34. Rama Rajya

35. Wait for the Savant

Notes

Terrorism could be the heading of the running chapter in human history though strife had always been its grand title. Assorted terrorist groups to espouse their parochial causes have come to target their ideological opponents with utter cynicism. At least they have an articulated grievance and identified opponents with defined terror zones that are amenable for containment and redressal and or both at some stage or the other.
But what of the jihadi terrorism! It matters little where we live in this wide world, and one being a Musalman is no guarantee either to escape being its victim. Its madness might reduce us to a statistic of the dead or injured in tomorrow’s newspaper headline in today’s fidayeen attack. If left unabated it might one day engulf all of us in the Third World War. And thus the significance of any exercise aimed at improving our understanding of the involved issues cannot be overemphasized.
Well the origins of it all could be traced to the religious character of the Semitic faiths on one hand and on the other to the historical hurt of varied hues in the subcontinental society. Based on the scriptural quotes and the historical notes the wide spectrum of communal strife is captured here for a fascinating view in what is possibly a new genre that is un-put-downable. The theory that is postulated here is bound to impinge upon our ignorance or bias and /or both for an informed approach in analyzing the scourge.