Why No Hindu Terrorists?
If you’re like me, you’ve probably noticed that virtually all of the violent bombings and terrorist attacks in the news are related to Radical Islam. Although I’m sure every religion has occasional violent followers, when is the last time you cringed when you saw the aftermath of a Hindu terrorist attacks? For me, never. So why don’t other religious people–for example, Hindus–do violent things? I set out to find differences between Hinduism and Radical Islam to help answer this question. Here are some topics, and the differences I found between the two religions:
Social Aspects
Hinduism: caste system
Radical Islam: two main groups–bomb makers and bomb users.
Hinduism: Some people in the religion have red dots on their foreheads
Radical Islam: Some people outside the religion have red laser dots on their foreheads
Hinduism: Some people wear colorful saris, and there is no pope
Radical Islam: Some people use colorful language to demand sorries from the pope
Hinduism: enjoys peace
Radical Islam: enjoys pieces
Spirituality
Hinduism: Many celestial beings with corresponding statues
Radical Islam: One god with a PR problem
Afterlife
Hinduism: reincarnation
Radical Islam: heaven with 70 virgins
(With 70 virgins waiting for them in heaven, I can see where radical muslims would be more willing to die. But with Hinduism, you’ll just be reincarnated and start the cycle all over again. It’s a pain to have to start all over, so why not just enjoy your current life?)
Death
Hinduism: If you come back, you may come back as something worse. (A dung beetle, perhaps.)
Radical Islam: If you come back, you have a defective detonator.
So you see, Hinduism really has no motivation to be violent. You’ve already got nice clothes, interesting statues, and a chance to die of natural causes. And no one wants to risk being reincarnated as a creature whose main accomplishments are balls of poop.
Arnold D'Souza responds:
Posted: September 29th, 2006 at 9:27 am →
Haha! Very funny… Politically incorrect and all that, but FUNNY nevertheless… I’d keep a watch out for angry Moslems though, if I were you!
Onyx Stone responds:
Posted: September 29th, 2006 at 9:28 am →
I think you need to spend a little time in Kashmir.
Still you have a pretty strong argument there. Islam does seem to notch up more than its share of trouble on the global scale.
The only bit that really offended me was that it’s 72 virgins, not 70! Jihad! Jihad! you blasphemer!
OnyxStone
Rachel responds:
Posted: September 29th, 2006 at 10:41 am →
I would love to read a comparison of the Taliban vs. the current administration.
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Posted: September 29th, 2006 at 4:20 pm →
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