[Posted August 2, 2009]

A clash that has nothing to do with real religion and everything to do with ignorance

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Here we go again...

Straits Times Aug 30, 2009 - CAROLYN HONG

Cow protest in Selangor

KUALA LUMPUR - AS MALAYSIANS continue to angrily condemn Friday's provocative protest over the building of a Hindu temple, the Selangor government has promised to meet Muslim residents of the area to hear their complaints.

The protesters had brought the severed head of a cow, a sacred animal to the Hindus, and some had also stepped on it.

Photographs were splashed on the Internet but not in the mainstream media. The newspapers also made no mention of the cow's head in their reports yesterday.

The temple, which now stands in Section 19, was built 150 years ago within an estate. That was later turned into a Malay-majority housing area. go to story

Related:
AP - 29 August 2009 VIJAY JOSHI

Malaysia Muslims protest proposed Hindu temple

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Dozens of Malaysian Muslims paraded Friday with the head of a cow, a sacred animal in Hinduism, in a dramatic protest against the proposed construction of a Hindu temple in their neighborhood.
AFP - 30 August 2009 VIJAY JOSHI

Malaysian Muslim 'cow head' demo criticised

In the latest religious dispute to erupt in multi-cultural Malaysia, local media said 50 Muslims on Friday took the head of the cow -- a sacred animal for Hindus -- to the central Selangor state government office and stamped on it.

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Who's really religious anyway?

For the love of God... Hansadutta das

I don't see that there's any difference between the followers of Krishna, the followers of Christ, the followers of Mohammed. The only thing I see is that people DON'T follow. They will just talk, and they will not follow. more

If you are religious, then there is no cause to be divisive

excerpt from conversation, Tehran, August 10, 1976

NAVA-YAUVANA: Also they say that religions are the causes of war. In Lebanon now the Christians are killing the Muslims and the Muslims are killing the Christians in the name of...

PRABHUPADA: And the Communists are killing capitalists and capitalists are killing Communists. What is that? Is that religion? Then? How you can stop war? Because you are animal, you fight, you can give some name, either on religious ground or this philosophical ground. But because you are animal you will fight. You can give a different name. That is different thing. But because you are dogs, you'll fight. The real religion is why they will fight? Religion means to accept God. So if you are Muslim, I am Hindu, if I accept God, if You accept God, then where is fight? If we accept that God is the proprietor, God is the father, then where is the question of fight? Because we are not religious, therefore fight. Otherwise, if you accept God is the supreme father, if I accept God is the supreme, why fight?

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