what i write below is not personal hatred towards the poster, but just observation and knowledge...
What do you mean by forced marriages ? If you are referring to arranged marriages then I don't think Indians in western world are doing much of arranged marriages.
so you mean all those hordes of kannadas, telugus, gujratis and punjabis in western nations don't force daughters into marrying "decent god-fearing boy, ramesh" when in reality the daughters may not want to marry at all, or horror of horrors, the daughters may like western natives or... or a muslim...
From what I see it is more common among Muslims.
among south asian "muslims" and gulf "muslims", true... but forcing marriage upon daughters or sisters is illegal from a islami point of view... surely, you have heard of that saying... "jab miyaan biwi raazi toh kya karega qaazi".
Dowry and Honor killings are illegal even in India
dowry being illegal in india, technically, doesn't stop
female teachers in india from gambling in "kaun banega crore pati" so that they win enough money to pay a big dowry for their sister... seen that episode??
as for "honor killing", indian laws have not even properly made them a crime... so this below regularly happens...
1. from just a few days ago...
Uncle murders girl, boyfriend in Dharwad - The Times of India
2. an older case... the lady was a "software engineer"... supposedly "educated", according to indian culture... which is why the college system is stupid... doesn't really give anyone any true freedoms or knowledge...
Indian engineer dies in honour killing - Telegraph
and I have not seen a precedence of the same in Western countries anywhere.
wrong... indian ( and south asian ) families carry their indian "culture" where ever they migrate to...
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/24/world/europe/uk-honor-murder-sanghera/
Btw dowry and honor killings are more prevalent in Islamic society as well.
dowry is declared a crime in islam... rather, the wedding procedures include a pre-marriage agreement for
alimony called "mahr"... by that itself and combined with other things, the islami marriage is
slanted in favor of the lady... but truly, the concept of marriage is obsolete
as for honor killing among "muslims", please read my above statement about "jab miyaan biwi raazi..."
if anything, dowry and honor killing in muslim communities has been adopted by the stupid ones with moralistic and female-hating attitudes, from hinduism.
Now Are you declaring Mythological belief against the laws as well?
you are probably too young to remember the "ganesha drinks milk" episode of madness that started among the gujarati hindu families of britain and spread to millions of homes in india... this was in the 1990's... you may ask any older relatives about this madness.
Don;t you have mythological belief like dragon sized ababeel throwing burning stones at armies,
from what i gather, it is a feel-good pre-"islami" belief which was carried over as tradition into islam... and though not a defining part of what makes islam "islam", but is not a bad story at all
pre-islami beliefs from arab lands... like the legends of hatim tai... which crossed over into muslim culture... but belief in jinn's is more prevalent among south asian muslims.
i must check on that... because the medieval muslims were great astronomers, and who were really the cause for later enlightenment era astronomers among europeans... and of course, there is the story of the "jantar mantar" instruments which needed precise muslim instrumentation for construction...
human beings evolving about of adam hawaa
it is like asking the question "what is the age of the universe??"... such a question is rather unnecessary and rather difficult to answer... and the idea of "adam and eve" really started much before islam, going back into jewish beliefs, or maybe older...
and how exactly Allah gave quaranic verses to Muhammad when nobody even know its shape or form or even if it exisys?
since you state that, i will say that hazrat muhammad had
enlightenment which is a truly personal, beautiful, spiritual and long and personal experience but which can create human-scale changes.
and maybe zarvan will come here and thunderously start with "mister..."
Unfortunately Muslims are using the same against innocent people world over.
just since 2011... 200,000+ libyans, 150,000+ syrians, thousands of iraqis and hundreds of pakistanis... most of these, muslim... have died through actions of fake-muslims ( taliban, ikhwaan, al qaeda, fsa, jemah islamiya etc ) who were armed and supported by western governments.
and how many non-muslims died in the same period?? not many, yes??
The Islamic Burqa is considered a big security threat
the burqa is not islami... there is just one clothing that is islami and this is the "ihram", worn during hajj (
Ihram clothing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )... but the rest of "muslim" clothing is cultural... and the burqa is dirty clothing from iran.
and the followers of Islam themselves have forced people into that impression.
not true... not all followers of islam... only some western-media-promoted fake-muslims and many from a careless silent majority ( like how liontk said above ).
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i hope i answered your points with no aggression or hatred towards you as a person