Ep 216: Being Muslim in India
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Politics of Religion
Religion is an amalgamation of a number of things, faith, culture, its history, your family traditions and fear. When the religion of islam was being formed, then they took into account all these things. And then political power, or political control over people were very, very essential. That's why you see the rules, the regulations, like a phemy came about. Er. Now, islam has absolutely nothing to say about blasphemy. I mean, it's bad behavior that you are er calling somebody names. But er, it was not punishable. There was if there was no offence in this. So when the er, the politics became part of religion. Because when
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