Muslim Intelligentsia Is Still Stuck In Islam and Quran: A Polite Rejoinder to Mr Shanavas
By
Sumit Paul, New Age Islam
29 November
2022
The Habit Of Islam Being The Be-All And End-All
And Blindly Considering This Faith To Be An Inventory Of Universal Wisdom Ails
The Muslim Intelligentsia And They Distort Facts To Suit Their Agenda Of
Islamic Supremacism
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Most of the
Muslims (NOT ALL) suffer from jump on the bandwagon syndrome and vulturing (a
sociological term coined by the sociologist Bruno Latour). I'm saying this to
prove Mr Shanavas' (Islamic) rejoinder to my article in which I
pooh-poohed Adam and Eve as mankind's 'spiritual' parents.
One more Muslim butted in unnecessarily. This is called Vulturing. Vultures
have a habit of seeing and poking into the rotten flesh even if they're not
hungry.
Mr
Shanavas, who's an out and out Muslim and is adept at theological conceits,
says, it is estimated that modern human was created from earlier species
200,000 years ago. I say, even more! Happy? Fossils and DNA suggest people
looking like us, anatomically modern Homo sapiens, evolved around 300,000 years
ago. Surprisingly, archaeology – tools, artefacts, cave art – suggest that
complex technology and cultures, “behavioural modernity”, evolved more recently:
50,000-65,000 years ago. This is what I meant in my piece. It's not the
dysfunctional existence but the functional presence (with cognitive faculty)
that's of paramount importance. Starting about 65,000 to 50,000 years ago, more
advanced technology started appearing: complex projectile weapons such as bows
and spear-throwers, fishhooks, ceramics, sewing needles.
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Read: Allah Sent Prophets To All Nations: A Reply To Mr.
Sumit Paul
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As for his
objection to calling Zoroastrianism as the earliest Monotheistic faith that
came into being 4,000 years ago, I must quote one of the leading neurologists
in the world, Sultan Terlaci and a great sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, "
Semblance of monotheistic religiosity among discrete cults and groups across
the globe and also predating modern organized religions cannot be cited as
definite examples of either monotheism or polytheism. That's animism and
religio-tribalism. When you pare a cult down to bare minimum, it's naturally
monotheistic. Deities add on and get accrued with time. This process progresses
independently without a link because fear of the unknown is a generic concept
integral to human psyche and genetics."
As regards,
Adam and Eve, should I laugh or cry? Mr Shanavas, however hard you may try, you
cannot prove that Adam and Eve ever existed because these individuals never
graced or disgraced the earth. For your reference, science tells us that Adam
and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought
otherwise is irrelevant. They were wrong. This is not to say that they were
stupid or careless. Two thousand years ago, for a Jew to believe in Adam and
Eve was perfectly sensible. But time moves on and with it our understanding of
the world around us, and old beliefs have to give way to new ones. Aristotle
thought that some people were born to be slaves. He was wrong. St. Paul thought
we are descended from Adam and Eve. He was wrong (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/adam-and-eve-dont-exist-g_b_874982).
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Also
Read: The Civilizational Myth of Adam and Eve
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Scientists
can trace our maternal and paternal lines back to a woman and man who lived a
long time ago, but they ain't the Biblical or Semitic Adam and Eve. People
refer to these two individuals as “mtEve” and “Y-Adam.
This habit
of Islam being the be-all and end-all and blindly considering this faith to be
an inventory of universal wisdom ails the Muslim intelligentsia and they
distort facts to suit their agenda of Islamic supremacism.
Lastly,
Prophethood is a Semitic concept, limited to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Hinduism believes in Avtarvaad, which's based on the concept of the
immortality and indestructibility of the soul and reincarnation. The Teerthankars
of Jainism and Dalai Lamas in Buddhism are not prophets in the usual sense
of the term. Pitakas in Buddhism and Agams in Jainism don't treat
Buddha and Mahavir as prophets because both the faiths are atheistic in nature.
They're Sambuudham and Kaivalyam respectively, not your
conventional prophet/s. So, I'm afraid, your claim that the Supreme Being sent
prophets to all nations and civilizations, doesn't hold water.
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A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul
is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He
has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in several
languages including Persian….
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