During the Navratri festival celebrations, Dr. Heenal Raichura was awarded “Unique Achievement Award” by the Nagrecha Trust on Saturday 4th October 2008, attended by more than 1,200 people at the Nagrecha Hall in Leyton, London.

The Official Presentation was conducted by The Rt. Hon Stephen Timms, the Member of Parliament for East Ham and Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform at the Department for Work and Pensions.

Besides the British Government’s Minister, there were other diginitaries in attendance including the Mayor of Newham and Councillors.

Dr. Raichura will receive another honour at an Annual Grand Ceremony to be held at a glittering function befitting this great event on Friday 2nd January 2009 at Indian Habitat Centre in New Delhi.

She will be presented with the globally reputed “Glory of India Award”.

“claim superiority of this religion over others, and this being the only true way.”

This is the biggest myth ever invented by orientalists. Islam never claimed to be over all other religions. Instead Quran says “Islam has come to supersede all other ways of life”.

Now you may argue its the same. But it is not.

I am a bit short of time at this moment. But I promise that I will cover this thing in detail in a blog post and let you know about it.

there are many ways to the ONE God, and ours is one of them
CAN YOU PROVE THIS CLAIM LOGICALLY.
This is plain simple hypocrisy.

All roads don’t lead to roam. I am not willing to accept that there are many ways to reach God. There can be only one true way. I am fine if you or someone can prove that Islam is not the way . This is logical.

Room for all dialogue within Islam (or on Islam) is right now stopped or discouraged, through purposeful spreading of ‘fear’ (direct or coercive).

This is again utterly wrong. You claim to have seen Dr. Zakir Naik, but looks to me you have seen him talk but never listened to him. Infact Quran talks very clearly about this

“Invite (all) to the way of thy Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching; and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious”. (Al-Qur’an 16:125)

First, please provide citations for your claims.

Second, I have not said that Islam is bad. The way practices of Islam are being juxtaposed from 700AD to 21st century is the problem. Part of this is the misinterpretation of Muhammed and Quran, to claim superiority of this religion over others, and this being the only true way. For any change in the world to happen, there needs to be acceptance of the fact that “there are many ways to the ONE God, and ours is one of them”. Additionally, there needs be serious reform in Islam with greater acceptance of Sufi values, which are being bombed like many other things in Orthodox Islam.

Thirdly and most importantly, if people move to a certain religion does not mean that the religion is good or superior. The only way a religion or philosophy can stand the test of ’strength of wisdom’ is through ‘discourse’ and ‘dialogue’. In ancient India, from Kashmir (and actually beyond to Tashkent) to Kanyakumari - this spirit was called “Shastrarth” (philosophical discussions or debates), and most of ancient India (which extended upto boundaries of modern Iran) upto South-East Asia, started following Buddhism because of such Shashtrath. This is certainly not happening in context of the claimed Islamic conversions. Worse still, if people speak out freely, especially from within the muslim community, there are fatwas issued against them to kill them - Taslima Nasrin is an example, alongwith hundreds of other examples, from Middle East to SE Asia.

Islam flourished in Arabia alongwith sciences in the middle ages, when there were serious exchange of ideas with the East. It is the nature of dialogue and debate that it leads to progress - spiritual and material. Room for all dialogue within Islam (or on Islam) is right now stopped or discouraged, through purposeful spreading of ‘fear’ (direct or coercive). This leads to moral, spiritual, and material decline.

All argument against Islam fall flat on there faces when you consider one simple fact.

If Islam is so bad.
“Why is it the fastest growing religion today”.
“And best part is among the people accepting Islam, 65% are women”
“Despite the continued propaganda of west, Islam is growing fastest in Europe and America”

And I am talking about the Non-Muslims accepting Islam at their will. Not the immigrants.

Can you please answer me which Aurengzeb is forcing Islam at the point of sowrd in US and Europe.

Any answers???

Hope you remember me. We need to talk a lot man.

I am sorry to say that your(and the unnamed Muslim friend of yours) understanding of Islam not based on facts and if it is those facts are twisted.

I would surely want to discuss this with over a coffee.

BTW, I have moved my blog over to http://saunzal.org.

Hope to meet you soon.

PS: Keep a eye at http://twitter.com/mirnazim. so that when I am in delhi next time, you can remind me even if I forget.