You are quick to differentiate the actions of people and country and yet you blame Islam for the action of a few that go clearly against its teachings ! There is also no Single muslim country on the planet today.
Ok lets rewind back to your question.. let me break it down to you..
You asked..
So your saying srilanka should have just sit back and let LTTE occupy the lands and let them run riot and we could all keep forgiving them ?
Answer in Buddhism: YES, we should forgive them (because Buddhism doesn't allow violence)
Answer in Islam: NO we should fight back (because Islam allows it)
Sri Lanka's answer: YES, because Sri Lanka is not governed by Tripitaka or any laws that descend from it.. Sri Lanka is governed by a separate constitution!
What would be Saudi Arabia's answer? YES.. why because they adopt Sharia Law (God's Law) this is a direct connection to the Holy Book and Islam..
Now in conclusion on both occasions Islam's answer is FIGHT, but you get different answers from Buddhism.. that's the difference!
This is what I've been trying to point out.. in all my replies I have not blamed Islam on single isolated incident of an individual... if I have done so I've blamed Quran because Quran has allowed it! that's it!
According to budhism the more things you like the more you suffer ? So to not suffer at all you are not supposed to have desires at all ? That is incoherent with human nature completely ! Even babies have desires ! Not to mention , people dont suffer when their desires get fulfilled !
Further what about liking to do good things ! Then to want love is suffering ! To desire to spend your life with some one ,to desire to raise a fam , desire to get an education , desiree to do social good all means you will suffer!
While you are talking about all good things in life... also remember all good things will come to an end.. where sadness and suffering prevails..
Anyhow.. Buddhism doesn't say not to love, not to have a family etc. there are rules laid down for that too... that's why it's such a flexible religion... because you can have desires all you want.. but when you ready there's way defined for you, if you are not ready there's also a way defined.. when are you going to change is entirely upto you, nobody is forcing you.
But cannot deny that everything you do will have it's consequences, now that's the only things that's natural to this world.. cause and effect!
'If you dont really mind getting reincarnanet ?' So wheres the incentive or the consequence ? I can live however i want on this earth(even as hitler) cz i dont really mind getting re incarnated ! no punishment no nothing ! Cause - effect ? And besides thats not what i hear , budhists tell me you will get reincarnated as lesser beings if you live a bad life , like a dog or something. I will elaborate on this later below.....
I've answered this above.. If you dont want to commit to the path that Buddha says that you will get Nirvana, then he doesn't say you can live however you want... actually you can live however you want as long as you know there will be consequences, but Buddhism has laid down instructions for a good life..
Perfect example is the 5 precepts, which an ordinary man can commit to on a day to day basis... which in almost all Buddhist schools for an example is a ritual every morning..
If you want to go deeper then you have 8 precepts, then 10. etc.
You reap what you sow and if you have sown 'torture' 'torture' is what you get ! Torture is when people not deserving punishment are punished ! This is not the case !!! Where is your success rate higher than failiure !
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Well.. earlier I've given you a link that says that there's over 90% of success rate from a certain program, here you are telling me that its not successful.. well then they should adopt the more successful program.. very simple!
Bottomline.. rehab has proven to be successful more often than not!
And what about the victim ? Why are her rights completely overlooked ? Your just telling her to swallow it up whilst the guy spends time in prison (which is luxury compared to where some of the culprits come from) and then go on to live normal lives ! As if nothing happened !
You think being in a 8"x10" cell is luxury?
Its upto to the victim if he.she has it to forgive them and God applauses such acts but thats her/her right and there is no wrong if they choose not to!
If god applause that then he knows it's the right thing to do... yet he encourage hate.. he will resort to violence upon victim's request, he actually doesn't have to.. he can instead make this all go away and restore everything back to normality.. but he wants to test us?
Again back to the same old questions here.. what does he gets from testing us?
Firstly this verse was not in perfect english to begin with ! Its transliterated ! Quran it is clear that stealing is haram and the plunder here is to take from in war times ! If not there will not be a follow up translation saying that 'who plunders conspicuosly is not of us' ! Plunder conspicuously meaning to 'steal' !
'to take the goods of by force (as in war)' - for example snatching away weapon of the enemy or enemy resources !
Ive answered that before ! Dont twist my words

You are the one who's twisting words here...
The "plunders" verse is a different verse (38-4378) how come you merge that with war?

, where in that verse says that you can refer to (38-4394) for the exact meaning?
But nevermind.. lets take your "merged" theory..
Even if it is enemy resources.. how come it's not stealing... technically it belongs to someone else.. you are taking it without that person's knowledge.. also how do you know for sure it's enemy's resources when you are taking.. has any rules laid down in Quran to back this verse? how to determine whether or not it's enemy's resources?
What if the resources are in enemy territory but belongs to innocent civilians?
I already have and in my next post let me elaborate on the many more!
God has given free will for us to worship Him out of choice and given us Quran and sent us messengers and prophets with reminders and signs for us ! The intuition towards God is innate within every human , and after all this if we still deny the existence of God altogether or give the mantle to something else (stones , man , fire) then we cannot expect forgiveness from someone we have denied the existence of in the first place ! or deemed unworthy of worship (for whatever reason we may have denied it cultural,egotistical) etc ! Yet God has revealed to us that the reward for those who deny Him (non muslims) will be in this world only !
So the conclusion is he has given free will to do anything except to deny him?
So its not as free as we think... more like a gimmick..
In conclusion god's free will is not 100% free!
hehe you say no Mysterious Almighty , but yeah this 'mystical fault of earth karma' is very there ! According to this 'cause effect force of karma' if a child is born deformed its because karma has kicked in and the child is born deformed because he was a terrible sinner in the previous life ! This child might grow up to never remember his past life (almost always the case) !
I've said in this forum before many times.. I'm telling you now.. I DO NOT KNOW how after life Karma exactly works! Nobody knows... but there are facets of Karma in day to day life that is undeniable, when I say Karma dont just jump into mystical forces..
Karma is cause and effect we that everyday every second of our lives... I can only think of after live Karma as a projection of everyday Karma in your next life!
Secondly by budhist principles he should be looked at as a severe sinner in the past life
From which Buddhist Principal you took this from.. mind showing me?
so are we to be compassionate to a deformed child who might potentially be a reincarnated prabhakaran or hittler? and if such compassion is shown to a sinner in the afterlife , im sure hittler and saddam have no regrets ! (deformed child is an example, it can be anything a tree a dog )
Also want to touch up concept of 'nothingness' and prayer
So what if its Hilter or Praba? you recommend chopping off his limbs according to Islam?
