Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 15:31:21 +0500
From: iqbal <iqbal-AT-sdpi.org>
Subject: Re: Naipaul's "Beyond Belief"


The project of redeeming some 'negationism in India' asks too much
politicizing.  We confuse formal senses of Islam _ that depend upon certain
interpretators _  with its believers' social life in different locations. Does
Naipul's quote go beyond word of mouth 'experience'? You cannot erase past and
preserve Arabia simultaneously, I mean. Give grace marks to the old man.

Iqbal

C. J. S. Wallia wrote:

> Shekhar Krishnan wrote:
> >There is a great danger here, as I mentioned earlier, in attempting to
> >equate so-called "Muslim imperialism" (a careless term, one that glosses
> >over the several dynasties of nominally Islamic rule) in the subcontinent
> >with British or Western imperialism.
>
> ==========================================>
> See the online-book by Koenraad Elst
>  "Negationism in India: Concealing
>  the Record of Islam"
> at  http://www.voi.org/voi/books/negaind/
>
> V.S. Naipaul in "Beyond Belief" says:
>
>                             "There probably has been no imperialism
>                              like that of Islam and the Arabs....Islam
>                              seeks as an article of the faith to erase the
>                              past; the believers in the end honor Arabia
>                              alone, they have nothing to return to."
>
> Beyond Belief is a very persuasive book -- the best of Naipaul's nonfiction.
> c.j.
>
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