“O you who believe, the idolaters only are unclean.” (Qur’an 9:28)
“‘Agar kheera utha lun to poori plate dustbin mein daal dete hain’: Hindu woman narrates religious discrimination she faces in Pakistan,” OpIndia, October 14, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Hindus, a minority in the Islamic country of Pakistan, are frequently targeted with hatred, kidnappings, rapes, forced marriages, and death. In one such recent incident, a Hindu girl was mentally tortured after being inducted into a company in Karachi, Pakistan. She said that she was being treated miserably for being a Hindu.
The incident was brought to light by Narain Das Bheel, the founder and chief organizer of a Hindu organization named the ‘Hindus Organization of Sindh’. He said that the victim girl was his friend and that she was being tortured in a company in Karachi for being a Hindu.
“I have a Hindu friend who got a job in a new company in Karachi. Today she told me about her pain”, Bheel said sharing the screenshot of his Whatsapp conversation with the victim girl. The girl in the conversation said that nobody in the office talked to her because she was a Hindu. “I was crying yesterday. My dishes in the office are kept separate and nobody touches them”, the girl informed during the conversation.
She also said that the Islamists in her office were treating her like animals. “..Jaise mai janwar hu. Agar mai plate me se kheera utha ke kha lu to puri plate dustbin me daal dete hai (.. As if I am an animal. If I eat a cucumber from their plate, they throw away the entire food)”, she said.
A local political worker Sarman Brohi (as per Twitter bio) also took to social media to post about the incident on October 13. He stated that the woman had joined in the company as a textile designer and was tortured for belonging to the Hindu religion. The girl further said that she would leave the job and that she was looking for a better opportunity….
Mark Spahn says
“O you who believe, the idolaters only are unclean.” (Qur’an 9:28)
What an ambiguous sentence! Does it mean that the only people who are unclean are idolators? Or that the only thing that idolators do is be unclean?
https://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=9&verse=28
gives seven translations of this verse, saying variously that “the polytheists are unclean”, “the idolators only are unclean”, “Truly the Pagans are unclean”, “the idolators are nothing but unclean”, “the pagans are filthy”, “the Mushrikun are Najasun (impure)”, and “the idolators are indeed unclean”.
Guidance like this in a Manual for Living is not operationally useful.
What does a believer in Xenu need to do to be clean?
Dave says
“While there are noted benefits to feeling disgust, it can also be dangerous. Unfortunately, most societies teach the avoidance of certain groups of people deemed physically or morally disgusting and, thus, can be a driving force in dehumanizing and degrading others.”*
*https://www.paulekman.com/universal-emotions/what-is-disgust/
࿗Infidel࿘ says
And Hindus are the ones dinged for untouchability