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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 ...?
