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Re: # 210

kaalchakri,

..... in my experience, people from the subcontinent - hindoos and muslims - are the filthiest people on al gore's earth ..... the only thing that they keep clean is their behind, which they ritually wash a couple of times a day - other than that, their body odor is only matched by the stench of their kitchens .... even here in america, i doubt you would want to eat at an indian restaurant if you got a peek at their kitchen ..... i have stopped getting coffee from dunkin donut which is controlled by the patel tribe because i am a little suspicious of the long pinky fingernail sported by their men - i wonder what they use it for ...... any idea?

Tahmed sahib:

A great video. More power to DIL.

Heenga= Assfoetida spice

#220 that is exactly my point, laddu khan.

Re: # 218

Mian,

Aap hi ko aapki cheez pada riya hoon!!

kaalchakra #210 tradition, old habits and so forth in due course become sanctified as "religion". this is as true for hindus as for muslims, christians, jews and so forth.

thinking of "others" as unclean is one of these habits, and this is not restricted to hindus either. e.g. hamidm below was talking about how his mother thought hindus smelt of heeng; just as your grandmother would shoo musla kids out of the kitchen. japanese considered westerners "unclean". even cannibals in the south seas would eat only fellow savages, considering the white people to be unclean. and sarah palin of course could tell you about the unclean inhabitants of that distant country of Africa that she can almost see on a clear day from Alaska..

laddu mian: your understanding of islam is as convenient as that of other hindus.

What good is giving books to girls when their faces are going to be etched via acid? US should be bombing these animals as well as giving books. Not one or the other! Delusional as arjun says!

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Re: # 214

Umm......that Hadith was about the benefits of CAMEL milk and urine..........

thanks Allah for that!!

Re: # 204

"the rest of humanity is unaware of its spiritual qualities (and thank Allah for that). :-)"

Tahmed ji ,

You have not read you own Islamic hadiths properly.

Here is the Hadith , dating back to Bedioun days of Prophet when he revealed the benefits of cow milk and urine-

Some people from the tribe of 'Ukl came to the Prophet and embraced Islam. The climate of Medina did not suit them, so the Prophet ordered them to go to the (herd of milch) camels of charity and to drink, their milk and urine (as a medicine). They did so, and after they had recovered from their ailment (became healthy) they turned renegades (reverted from Islam) and killed the shepherd of the camels and took the camels away. The Prophet sent (some people) in their pursuit and so they were (caught and) brought, and the Prophets ordered that their hands and legs should be cut off and that their eyes should be branded with heated pieces of iron, and that their cut hands and legs should not be cauterized, till they die. Volume 8, Book 82, Number 794, Narrated Anas.

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DIL (Developments in Literacy) started by (and still largely funded by) Pakistani expats in the US makes it to the NYT as being a much better investment for Obama to consider than simply giving more military weapons to Pakistan in the fight against taliban.

(see video in the link below)

http://www.nytimes.com/

Bubba, if you allow others simply human faults, you notice that considering others unclean is a very reasonable expectation, unless you can be sure they are clean.

Most often that belief would not and should not matter. But in some contexts, such as eating food, or inter-marriage, that would be more important in other contexts, such as trading with each other.

tahmedji, traditionally, Hindus in the grocery store business - the vaishyas - have had very clear rules about their workplace and how they conduct and record their business. If you speak to them, many would speak of their practices and bahi-khatas in religous and dharmic terms. You don't see those rules because you don't come in contact with that part of the business.

Hindus made religious rules for everything, for how they conducted their lives. These were rarely 'universal' rules because different people and contexts had different situations and conditions.

Eating food and keeping it clean has been an obsession of Hindus, for good reason, in a hot country like India. Not based on any science, but simply on common sense, as they saw it.