The Abrahamic faith of Islam has been trying hard to wipe out the Vedic religion and Buddhism long before the western Christians arrived on the scene. Even now, christian missionary groups disparage other ideas and try to convert the poor by providing financial incentives. These clowns are not satisfied when people with an open mind acknowledge Jesus as a great guru. The only thing that'll satisfy christian proslytizers is to believe that the vedic religion and Buddhism are of demonic origin and Jesus is the only way. They go about creating bigoted fanatics.
Auras? Yes.
Yes, Islam expanded eastward, but it wasn't like the mullahs all got together and decided they needed to eradicate the religions of India. You are looking at mostly territorial stuff that used religion to convince people to get on board. Most of the Islamic sects decided to stay home. Aside from a handful of psychotic factions, none of that has happened in the lifetime of you, your parents, your grandparents, or your great-grandparents. It's like being upset about entertainment media and using Shakespeare as your reference.
Yes. As I said in my initial reply here, they do think you folks are all wrong and that the Devil is your captain. There might be a million hateful Jesus freaks in the US, but there are more than 200 million self-identifying Christians in the US, so those million people are less than 1% of the total. Maybe that percentage is slightly higher for Islam, but out of ~5 million Muslims in the US, we had to import 19 guys from Saudi Arabia and Egypt for our big terror blitz. If they're all for destroying other religions, they're being pretty lazy about it.
Bangladesh is poor, and is surrounded by nations that are substantially less poor, so despite this being pitched as a black mark against Islam, I'm tempted to say that there are other stronger factors at work, like being poor. People in desperate situations do bad things. There's a reason these things are being done by one psycho faction of Islam and are either ignored or opposed by the other 2 billion Muslims in the world. Yes, religion greases the wheels of these kinds of events, but it's wrong to say that this is what Islam is about because you have 2 billion+ Muslims who couldn't care less about it.
Having been interested in this over a long period, and having met many people, I am in a far better position than most so-called paranormal researchers in regard to occult claimants. I have an insider's view, and one that is arguably broader and better-informed than most. In all that time, I have found exactly zero reason to believe anyone when they talk about seeing auras, feeling enchanted vibes, and similar psychometric techniques. They sound cool, but I think it's fake, and that the people who discuss this are more using their imagination than any psychic senses.
There were a lot of good answers and this conversation was quite fun to read. Now my 2 cents is simple: the Abrahamic cults hate polytheists because we remind them of what they buried. Their one-god cults were built on the bones of many gods, and they’ve spent centuries demonizing, outlawing, or absorbing those powers. Polytheists are dangerous to them because we don’t kneel to one throne. We honor many, we thrive in paradox, and we refuse their monopoly on the sacred. To a system obsessed with one truth, one book, one god, our multiplicity looks like heresy. To me, it looks like freedom.
Love this.
