Belief in Hindu shastras is incompatible with liberal or moderate self-identification

Evidence

It followed from this that Islam, as defined by its classical texts, was the key lens through which Muslim-majority societies could be understood. If women were oppressed it was because of the teachings of the Koran; if Muslims supposedly lacked an entrepreneurial spirit it was due to “Islamic tradition”; if modernization was rejected, again the Koran was to blame. In short, a whole host of characteristics associated with the West but allegedly absent from the “Muslim world” could be explained by recourse to religious texts and the mentalities they supposedly created. In this book, the term “Muslim world” has been put in quotation marks precisely to challenge the notion that Islam is the single most important factor in defining the people who live in the Middle East, North Africa, and elsewhere, or that there is a single undifferentiated entity called the “Muslim world.” — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 123 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Caste persists because Hindus follow shastra-backed religious beliefs, not irrational conduct; Rejecting the shastras while remaining Hindu is logically untenable.; Hindu tolerance may actually be mere indifference or flaccid latitudinarianism (+5 more)

Related

• Rejecting the shastras while remaining Hindu is logically untenable. (similarity 0.82)
• Religions should be judged by their best products rather than their worst (similarity 0.82)
• Attributing every social characteristic to religious texts erases contextual factors (similarity 0.82)
• Hindutva reframed Hinduism as a political identity mandating Muslim exclusion from India (similarity 0.80)
• Hindutva’s universal claim must annihilate whatever disrupts its completion (similarity 0.80)
• Philological analysis of key texts established Muslims as static subspecies (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Hindutva reframed Hinduism as a political identity mandating Muslim exclusion from India #expands (0.65)
• Attributing every social characteristic to religious texts erases contextual factors #corroborates (0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 123