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What is wrong with smashing the idols?

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
Are you more knowledgeable than Gandhi whom believed that Islam can never be
succeeded if by the sword.

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Not everyone shares your Faith in human authority.
Anyone, including Gandhi, can be very right about some things and just as wrong about others.
Tom
 

sayak83

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Are you more knowledgeable than Gandhi whom believed that Islam can never be
succeeded if by the sword.

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In history? Certainly. Gandhi was leading a freedom movement based on peace and nonviolence where he wanted to unite hindus, Muslims and Sikhs in a common cause. He said and did things that would further this cause and was often atrociously inaccurate with regards history, philosophy, theology or social conditions. I am yet to see a political or social reformer, no matter how great, who does not do this.
 

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
So he was wrong in this particular point, Islam
At best partially correct.
I think much more is known now than when Gandhi was in school. Perhaps that's why. Maybe he thought that soft pedaling that would benefit somehow. Who knows?
But just because he says something doesn't me I take it on Faith. As I said, I don't share the typical Faith in human authority that Muslims generally take for granted.
I consider that a form of idolatry.
Tom
 

SomeRandom

Still learning to be wise
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The evidence is that the idols was still existing, why they didn't smash them if they were
targeting them, why they didn't destroy the ancient churches in Syria and Palestine and
other areas in the Muslim lands.
Just because some survived does not mean that they all survived. That's kind of the point of smashing them to begin with. So history WON'T remember.
We don't know what half of the Canterbury Tales actually said. And that is considered one of the most important texts for the English language to ever exist.
The details on Shakespeare are sparse and unfinished. And he's been practically worshiped by academia for like 400 years. History does not record each and every detail. Some things are simply lost to time, especially that which was DESTROYED. That's why we have historians, to piece together what information they can and use their training to discern what happened.
 
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SomeRandom

Still learning to be wise
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do you think the native Americans do exist.
The existence of people who were historically oppressed today is not evidence that they weren't oppressed. Like 99 thousand jews living in Germany (as of 2014) is not evidence that the Holocaust never happened. People tend to repopulate. Like seriously, you might want to brush up on actual History.
 
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