http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Inquisition
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/007589.php
2007-03-13 20:41:12 · 14 answers · asked by Sunil N 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
do you think Jihadwatch is a reliable source of information? could not you find it on wikipedia?
you have to make the two source equally credible
God bless
2007-03-13 20:47:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The White Man is a Barbarian. Even our Holy Faith could not extinguish the fire of their barbarianism. The Church at that time is in control of those barbaric people. Only, in the 19th cent. they changed their ways.
Americans are annihilated.
The same with the Australians.
Apartheid has its power over South Africa.
Jews were persecuted.
They insulted the Arabs.
They tricked the Chinese.
They enslaved Southeast Asia.
They changed the Indian ways.
They degraded the humanity of Africa,
They have the man with his utmost barbarianism that controlled the Crown of Castille to persecute the Jews.
"Would you leave G-d for money?"
- Torquemada, while throwing a crucifix on the Castillian King so that he could estabilsh the Inquisition, the largest mistake the Church ever made.
2007-03-13 20:55:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Forced conversions are definitely an extreme case of voilation of human rights as such most detestable.Historically all the societies when true spirit of religion evaporates, have indulged in this practice.Hindus had Shudhi movement and same was done by christains and jews in certain cases by muslims but it has nothing to do with the actual concept of Jihad.
2007-03-21 18:28:00 · answer #3 · answered by shahinsaifullah2006 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they ruined everything and ended up killing their converts. What a mess! When they did that to the Indians, they eventually found their way back to the old ways in private. It certainly is shameful and it doesn't really work anyway because it doesn't change that person's own personal relationship with the God of their choice. You can't force love only obedience.
2007-03-21 12:11:50 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forced deconversions? The shameful act in the name of no God? The number of people killed as an act of forced conversion is not a drop in the bucket compared to the number of people killed as an act of deconversion. Human beings are violent, governments are violent - these acts are commited in spite of religion, not because of religion.
2007-03-13 20:55:58 · answer #5 · answered by NONAME 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Exactly. No Muslim has the right to convert anybody by force.
There are dozens of admonitions against such an act in the Quran. Dozens.
2007-03-21 05:00:40 · answer #6 · answered by Ashik 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forced Conversion used to happen in the 16th century onwards.I don't think in 20th and 21st century, people are interested in forced conversion in a big way.
2007-03-13 20:55:08 · answer #7 · answered by kumarcl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There cannot be any forced conversion to any religion. All religions treat it a shameful act. The mass conversion of Hindus into Christianity or Islam is not forced. They voluntarily embrace these religions, unable to suffer and tolerate any more the harassment, cruelty, insult and humiliation in Hinduism for their inferior castes and rejecting the Hindu philosophy and culture. Hinduism is not a religion. It is a culture, tradition, custom and way of Hindus' lives in Hindustan (India). No well known Hindu scholar, preacher, priest, book or script claimed Hinduism a religion. The BJP, Shiva Sena, Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad etc. insisted it a culture, tradition, custom, etc. but not a religion. Hinduism divided humanity in 4 categories (varnas) as per verses 40-47 Chapter-18 of The Holy Bhagavad Gita as taught by Lord Krishna to Arjun. There are thousands of castes in each category (varna). One not included in any of these varnas is untouchable and inferior to an animal. Hindu cannot be without a caste. Castes are unchangeable. Hindus' worship and prayer is the job of his caste, he born in by nature and nothing else. None convert to Hinduism but a Hindu can convert to a religion yet remain a Hindu by nativity. Hinduism tolerates and accepts all having no restrictions, bars or prohibitions.
Hinduism believes in worship of genitals of Lord Shiva/Parvathi (dictionery meaning of Sanskrit words Linga=penis & Yoni=vagina), impregnating wives through pious priests (Niyoga), consuming cow urine as sacred liquid, burning widow on funeral pyre of husband (Suttee), dedicating young girls to temples for sexual enjoyment of devotees and general public (Jogini, Devadasi) etc. Unable to agree or justify these, Hindus are rejecting Hinduism and converting to Christianity or Islam. The Governments enacted stringent laws and prescribed severe punishments for these conversion naming them forced, yet they are continuing with consent, free will and wish.
2007-03-14 09:56:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If only God could straighten out the mess with the different religions competing against each other.
2007-03-13 20:46:43 · answer #9 · answered by liberty11235 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Conversion to a religion can be forced, that is bad.
BUT conversion to God is beyond any law.
2007-03-18 03:40:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anuj P1952 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋