All are entitled to own beliefs without ridicule : Muslims trampled on cows head

Neither am I pained, nor am I surprised in the least! What else can you expect of Muslims? This is nothing to what their Prophet did. I mean what the Malay Muslims did was way much better than smashing 360 odd idols of Kaaba! At least what they did was of lesser intensity than what the Muslim invaders have done to Asian temples, property, wealth and so on. On the other hand, I strongly feel, Hindus too should get a tad rational in their approach. I mean the obsession with the cows is something beyond comprehension. And these days it seems that the cows are dearer to non-Indian Hindus than the Indian ones. And ironically, we all know that the cow was respected only for it was and is a highly useful animal, and apparently selfless. Hindus ought to return to the Vedas, Upanishads, Vedanta and other such mature scriptures than the utterly juvenile Puranas. Puranas are only useful for inculcating values amongst children, that's all!

Hello sanjana_aslam, Of course, I 'm a supporter of respecting each other, and consideration of each other, in your post I see that there was mistakes in both sides, the group Muslim protesters and their government, the story is that they want to build a Hindu temple in a Muslim majority city, it is of course the right of any group op people to have their places of worship, but the consideration in necessary, a Hindu temple means Idol-worshiping and more sacred cows, and Muslims don't a approve these things. What if I went to an Indian City with a Majority of Hindus and started my new project which happened to be a slaughterhouse for cows, where cows are sacred in the mind of the majority of populations ? Will they celebrate a new Project being set up in their neighborhood ? in such cases there is know consideration, and this is the main problem, the group Muslim protesters, Is there demonstrations by Muslims when Hindus build a temple in Places where the Hindus are the Majority ? of course no. And BTW: there was Updates regarding this, Malaysia charges 12 Muslims for anti-Hindu protest, considering the Fact that All the protesters were 50. Before accusing Muslims of Being intolerant, I 'm looking forward comments of Hindus regarding a new slaughterhouse for cows in their neighborhood. best regards!

What the protestered did was completely disrespectful without a doubt....yes they are entitled to their opinions and have the right to voice them but unfortunatley when protests go on...the feelings of others are seldomly considered and acts like this tend to happen to one degree or another... that said, I have a question...you said "How i wish god will punish them for being so intolerrant with others" How is your wishing ill on another for their actions any more tolerant or acceptable?? Just curious...

That is what is happening in all the muslim majority countries, Sanjana. The muslims have no respect for any other religion exept Islam, and basically, Hindus are people who are peace loving and do not open their mouths. Look at what is happening to the Srilankan Tamils, there is a genocide going on there, with the majority Buddhist, killing and raping all the Hindu Tamils,but nobody is bothered. Even in India, the Hindus, do not get the respect, and yesterday, the Tamilnadu government released more than 10 Muslims terrorists who bombed Coimbatore in 1998.They were freed, even though the High court, had sentenced them for 15 years RI.This was done as a mark of respect DMK founder and late chief minister, C.N.Annadurai's birth centenary. The unfortunate thing is not a single word was written against this by the leading news paper "The Hindu". This is the unfortunate plight of hindus in India and rest of the world.

Assalam u alikum sister.(May Allah's peace and mercy be on you) Firstly I want to say that to know about Islam don't judge it by seeing the acts of its followers.And most importantly followers of Islam will not hurt anybody.Because the title given to the follower of Islam is Muslim(one who bows down to the will of God)and there is not a single verse in the Quran which goes against humanity as a whole.Some people may for their personal desires may go against the teachings of Holy Quran. Some people of muslim community does acts of hatred ("as you said killing the cow for showing disrespect") because either they do not have knowledge or because they do not judge the situation justly.But any ways these people are our brothers in faith Inshallah if some knowledgeable person say them this is wrong they will stop it Inshallah.And as you say they are brothers in humanity,its your duty too to say them that Allah has prohibited to demolish the worship places of non-muslims like synagogue or church .I am unable to remember the verse number Inshallah I will post it as comment when I find it.Messenger of Allah(PBUH) said who does not have mercy on the creatures of Allah,Allah will not have mercy on him on the day of judgment.Brutally killing the cow is prohibited.In Islam we do ZAbiha. About killing the cow and stamping on it.I must ask that MUSLIM person what does it convey?Does this is the way prophet thought us?Did his companions ever do such a thing? Almost all people in Muslim community will not agree this type of act and I think these people have done such act on the opinion of some foolish person. Secondly--See for Hindus every thing is God.Snake,tree,monkey etc... I am asking should not we cut down trees now?If no then every country had shown disrespect to Hindus.should not we kill the snake if it enters our homes?snakes are in many moral stories in INDIA.Showing disrespect is very bad thing.I am just saying cow eating is allowed in Islam.And even many Hindu brother eat cow in our city HYDERABAD. AND OF MOST IMPORTANT IT WAS NOT IN HINDU RELIGION THAT COW SHOULD NOT BE EATEN.IT WAS I THINK IN JAINISM.YOU CAN FIND WHERE IT IS WRITTEN IN HINDU SCRIPTURE THAT COW CAN BE EATEN.TO FIND IT WATCH THE DEBATE BETWEEN ZAKIR NAIK AND RASHMIBHAI ZAVERI "IS NON-VEG PROHIBITED FOR A HUMAN". We respect all people of every community but will not follow the ways they follow We will follow as Allah(swt) has commanded us.He is The Creator.He is All-knowing and most Merciful.The Beneficient. For example in parts of the world people come naked on beaches.Should we respect their culture?Of course not. Even an understandable person will say that such an act is uncultured.Then are we only the people to say this.NO.Then how we people have become "the people who says we are right".If a particular thing is right,then there is no problem.Inshallah if some knowledgeable person may make a step to make these people who roam naked understand because they are arrogant and do not heed to warning of uncultured act, which people have said them already and they are not hearing to them. Hope I have answered it to the extent to make it clear that people(muslim or non-muslim) might do wrong,its our humble duty to teach them. If there is any doubt on any comment please make a note to me I will clear the mistake. Thank you

That is a sad thing. One reason behind this is people do not try to understand other people's religions. It is only when you understand te other's religion, there is a greater possibility of respecting the religion. For example, muslims and christians disregard hindus as polytheists. While on the outer surface this is true, if one goes deep into the hindu spiritual philosphy and reads the Gita, Upanishad etc.. one would get a different idea. The problem here is indoctrination. People, especially Abrahamic religions, are not encouraged to study other religions. Even if they do, they do so with a closed view because evn when they were children , they are taught that our religion is the true and the best. By the way, I am curious to know why cow is so sacred to hindus. Is it only because you respect it as mother, or is there also some other reason?

nothing to say but this only goes to show how rude, violent and barbaric these people are and whatever their religion teaches them, they have only brought more shame and disrepute to their religion in the eyes of others (i.e., if they are bothered at all as to how ‘others’ see them)

'Malaysia truly asia' it is the slogan of malaysian tourism or something. IS IT WHT WE NEED IN THIS WORLD???? no need of wonder In malaysia 60% muslims became the dominant so can do anything. In india there is only 13.5% muslims and are showing these much then y cant they do these in a place where they covers over 60%. i dont know wht we(the rest of the world) done to them, all the religions stands for the universal peace. lokah samastha sukhino bhavanthu

for a few bad people in certain community,why people blame the whole community.In this world, there are good as well as bad people in every religion.so, to blame any religion due to those bad people will be wrong.there are many good people,then why not people count the good deeds rather raking into account the bad ones. Being a muslim,I respect all the religions of the world and love to know more about them and their culture.

Hello my friend sanjana_aslam Ji, I deeply appriciate your feelings for all communities and totally agree with you. I do not think any religion of the world teaches and preaches hatred feelings, which was out-come of such incidence. I am very sure some politicians must have been involved. But Hindus do not have such hatred feelings. Hindus have much more tolerance, resulted their own sufferings. May God bless You and have a great time.

Do not fill your heart with hate wishing them punishment. Know that these people would never do these things if they really understood what they were doing. Their hate will return to them in lessons that will show them exactly what they are choosing to do. Keep love in your heart. Perhaps they will see by watching you!!

Hello Sanjana, I am very sorry to hear that this happened and that you have been offended. I completely agree with you that people need to be respectful to other cultures and beliefs. This surprises me that a group of Muslims would do this, my husband is Muslim and all of the people that I know who are Muslim are fairly respectful and mind their own business, I guess I could say that about Christians and Jews too, but not ALL of them are accepting either. Again, I am sorry and I hope that you are respectful and rise above this childish behavior. God Bless

I think its a violation against Hinduism. I think cows are venerated by Hindus.How could men of various beliefs coexist if the mere respect for others have been forgotten. For sure Hindus wont tolerate that to happen again and again. Then violence will erupt due to such doin that disrespect any beliefs. It could be much better if they could have the air for religious tolerance no matter what group people belong. Peace to all!

I dont think they are really from any religion who show this kind of behaviour in any civilized society. We can say about them a dog does not know really what wrong he is doing by barking or biting. If some one is really civilized and follower of his culture and religion he will never try to put some other or weak person down. So this is our mistake that we expect them to not do these kind of things. But here the responisibility of malaysian government to improve their country's status of mind.

Dear sanjana I feel you have shown a great respect to a religion. Hats off for you. Don't God is there who will punish them as per his requirement. But I repect your thoughts. Cheer up for you

Regardless of what it was about, it strikes me that trampling on a severed cow head is an undignified, dirty and disgusting activity. Acting in such an uncivilized manner when they don't like something is hardly likely to raise any sympathy only make people wonder what else they will stoop to.