Theos-Talk Archives (January 2007 Message tt00428)

Hello, Konstantin:

Re your statement below:
"I remember that HPB somewhere said that Islam is the best religion 
next to Buddhism. Maybe because it is free of idolatry and its 
adherents have no such fear of death as christians and materialists have."

Could you please cite where HPB said that for my education? Thank you. I do recall Annie Besant once having a giddy impression of Islam, perhaps she was your source?

Scribe
P.S.: I will not enter into a flame war with you. IMHO your comments belie an agreement with the radical materialist Wabbahi sect "rewrite" of the Quran.



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Konstantin Zaitzev 
  To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 3:15 AM
  Subject: Theos-World Laugh at terrorism Re: Internet & Theosophy


  --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "M K Ramadoss" wrote:

  >> During the World War Two many comic movies were made about Hitler. 
  >> Why don't they make the same about terrorists? Due moderm media
  >> they would make the greater impact than then.

  > Did we not see what happened when Dutch Newspapers published
  > the cartoons!

  Those cartoons were stupid. Scarcely any European would laugh on them.
  Secondly, the cartoons were insulting to the muslims at large, not to 
  the terrorists only.
  Thirdly, they made more harm to the muslims themselves who suffered 
  from the riots in their own countries, connected with the cartoons.

  I think that the problem of terrorism is rather the problem of the 
  western civilization than of the muslims. One jewish expert on 
  terrorism has said that the arabs began terror "when they have 
  discovered that the death is the sensitive issue for the westerners".
  Even 9/11 events were not considerable if regarded from the point of 
  view of the military and economic damage to the state. In the World 
  War Two we EVERY DAY had more victims than at one day of 9/11 (in 
  USSR only!).

  If we as theosophists want to eradicate terrorism, we should speak 
  not with the muslims but with our countrymen trying to ensure them in 
  reality of the life after death which is in many respects better than 
  the life downhere, and that the only hell is the life on earth.

  I remember that HPB somewhere said that Islam is the best religion 
  next to Buddhism. Maybe because it is free of idolatry and its 
  adherents have no such fear of death as christians and materialists 
  have.



   

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