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Beard doesn’t harm
29 March 2007
DOES a beard harm people? It is distressing that some people are annoyed at seeing a Muslim with a long beard. The media has set the mind of these people so rigid as to think that the long beard is a symbol of a terrorist.
Alas! Is it possible to make a bomb with the beard? Or, were those who rained bombs in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine bearded people? The most notorious dictators in the history of the world were beardless. Sikhs are widely enjoying this individual/religious right without facing any questions.
The long beard of a scientist is often seen as a symbol of his intellectual orientations. A pastor with a beard is seen as a pious person.
We Muslims never blame the religion when Hindus, Christians, Jews, or Sikhs do any wrong. It is despicable to call a terrorist who bears a name of Muslim as ‘Islamic terrorist’. We Muslims do not call Hitler a Christian terrorist even as he was a Christian and killed millions of Jews. We do not call the Americans who put atom bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and killed millions of innocent people ‘Christian terrorists’, even as the men who bombed were Christians by religion.
We do not call anyone a Hindu terrorist even when some of them have killed innocent Christians and Muslims in India during riots etc. So, why this tag on Muslims?
— Mammedutty Nilambur
Letters to the Editor
Beard doesn’t harm
29 March 2007
DOES a beard harm people? It is distressing that some people are annoyed at seeing a Muslim with a long beard. The media has set the mind of these people so rigid as to think that the long beard is a symbol of a terrorist.
Alas! Is it possible to make a bomb with the beard? Or, were those who rained bombs in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine bearded people? The most notorious dictators in the history of the world were beardless. Sikhs are widely enjoying this individual/religious right without facing any questions.
The long beard of a scientist is often seen as a symbol of his intellectual orientations. A pastor with a beard is seen as a pious person.
We Muslims never blame the religion when Hindus, Christians, Jews, or Sikhs do any wrong. It is despicable to call a terrorist who bears a name of Muslim as ‘Islamic terrorist’. We Muslims do not call Hitler a Christian terrorist even as he was a Christian and killed millions of Jews. We do not call the Americans who put atom bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and killed millions of innocent people ‘Christian terrorists’, even as the men who bombed were Christians by religion.
We do not call anyone a Hindu terrorist even when some of them have killed innocent Christians and Muslims in India during riots etc. So, why this tag on Muslims?
— Mammedutty Nilambur
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