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*Roman Catholic Vs Hindu ...?* *Tue Mar 24 07:36:28 PDT 2009* Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:29:46 +0900From: Joao Barros-Pereira < joaobarrospereira at gmail.com <http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org> >Reading the posts, in particular on religion, I get the impression thatthere are few Muslims as members of Goanet. How many Muslims have commentedin the last few months ...?Mario responds:There are no Muslim members of Goanet, as far as I know, though there is one female member with a hyphenated Catholic-Muslim surname. Joao wrote:As I'm new to this list I feel strange reading the posts and sometimes get the impression the world is divided into Roman Catholics vs Hindus. Mario asks:This is an open forum, so any VERSUS based on our surnames is pure coincidence as far as I am concerned. I don't consider a member's religion when I respond to something they have written, only what they have written. Their surnames mean little or nothing here as we have some agnostics and atheists who have Catholic or Hindu surnames. Joao replies: I agree with you with regard to surnames. I was, however, hoping for a variety of perspectives besides the Roman Catholic and Hindu traditional cultural and religious viewpoints even if they are atheists, agnostics and so on, and so I mentioned the Muslims. Argumentation with regard to religion or God, for example, is not something which has not been going on for thousand of years now .... Joao wrote:I cannot help but wonder why it is so ... Please enlighten me.Mario responds:An open worldwide forum like this attracts members by natural selection, mostly hearing about it from a friend or search engine. If it interests them, they stay. No one is asked to leave, except in a rare case when they may refuse to abide by the rules, but some have left for their own personal reasons. We had a Muslim member several years ago, but he decided to leave. If you know of any Muslims who are interested, feel free to invite them to join. Joao replies: I'm don't. I'm not pro or anti anything but variety is the spice of life. It does make for a more interesting exchange of ideas, wouldn't you say ...? Joao wrote:It is, after all, a big world we are living in which is full of a wide range of opinions - and, that's what makes the internet interesting, right? Mario responds:Right. So, see if you can find us a Muslim member. I don't know a single Goan who is a Muslim. Joao replies: You say you don't know a single Goan who is a Muslim but there were Muslims living in Goa even before the Liberation. Goa was also ruled by the Muslims. If Hindus are Goans even though their culture is different from Roman Catholics who are influenced by the Portuguese and their culture, why can't Muslims also be considered to be Goans ...?