03-31-2005, 01:00 AM
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial" id="quote">quote<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">posted by ice_blue
1. what is the difference b/w "nationalism" and "fanaticism" ?
2. when almost every religion preaches "tolerance", why dont ppl tolerate other religions ?
if anybody can answer these quetions, then he can surely call himself an "intellectual".<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
instead of waiting for that "intellectual" we better give our own opinions. and that's what we are supposed to do here.
1. i think nationalism is that people living in a certain geographical location start (somehow) believing that they are better than the others. as mustafa kamal (i don't know much about him) has said something like ,"thanks God for creating me as a Turk". and these sentiments, depending mostly on political environment, sometimes get more extreme and at times a bit moderate. some power-hungry people use these sentiments for thier vested interests, like they use religious and economic issues.
and fanaticism is belief that the opinion of a certain individual or a group should be enforced on others. like people preach that their brand of islam should be enforced, or like some sections of hindus want to enforce hindutava in india etc etc.
2. yes i haven't heard about any religion which doesn't require its followers to tolerate other beliefs but don't know why people don't tolerate other opinions. well, it's an evil thing and we do many evil things, don't know why?? must be something to do with the shaytan, lol.
i would never like to fight and die for a national cause (if it's not just) or to enforce my opinion on others. inshallah!!![)] we will discuss this topic in detail later[D]
inta habieba omri, malikta omri
1. what is the difference b/w "nationalism" and "fanaticism" ?
2. when almost every religion preaches "tolerance", why dont ppl tolerate other religions ?
if anybody can answer these quetions, then he can surely call himself an "intellectual".<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
instead of waiting for that "intellectual" we better give our own opinions. and that's what we are supposed to do here.
1. i think nationalism is that people living in a certain geographical location start (somehow) believing that they are better than the others. as mustafa kamal (i don't know much about him) has said something like ,"thanks God for creating me as a Turk". and these sentiments, depending mostly on political environment, sometimes get more extreme and at times a bit moderate. some power-hungry people use these sentiments for thier vested interests, like they use religious and economic issues.
and fanaticism is belief that the opinion of a certain individual or a group should be enforced on others. like people preach that their brand of islam should be enforced, or like some sections of hindus want to enforce hindutava in india etc etc.
2. yes i haven't heard about any religion which doesn't require its followers to tolerate other beliefs but don't know why people don't tolerate other opinions. well, it's an evil thing and we do many evil things, don't know why?? must be something to do with the shaytan, lol.
i would never like to fight and die for a national cause (if it's not just) or to enforce my opinion on others. inshallah!!![)] we will discuss this topic in detail later[D]
inta habieba omri, malikta omri
