Karnal wrote on Jan 7
th, 2017 at 11:43am:
are you wacist or kulturalist?
If a white man slags off Islam he is racist but if an Indian slags it off with the same arguments, he is a culturalist.
So whether you are a racist or not depends on your race. Now we know. Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys.
VS Naipaul launches attack on Islam
Fiachra Gibbons, arts correspondent
Thursday 4 October 2001 20.16 AEST
The novelist VS Naipaul has caused an outcry by comparing the "calamitous effect" of Islam on the world with colonialism.
Sir Vidia, born in Trinidad of Indian parentage, who travelled extensively in the Muslim world for his books Among the Believers and Beyond Belief, launched his attack after a reading of his new book, Half a Life, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
Islam, he claimed, had both enslaved and attempted to wipe out other cultures."It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'."
Sir Vidia claimed what he called "this abolition of the self demanded by Muslims was worse than the similar colonial abolition of identity. It is much, much worse in fact... You cannot just say you came out of nothing."
He argued that Pakistan was the living proof of the damage Islam could wreak.