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Originally Posted by deedawar
Hinduism does promote division of people based on their 'caste' and ill-treatment of lower cast human being. Islam is stricltly against such practice.
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Islam divides people into belivers and non-belivers and promotes killing of unbelivers where ever they are found. Such a violent and blood thirsty religion.
People may be divided on the basis of caste. Do you have any proof that the vedas or the Gita say that the so called "lower castes" must be subjugated or that the caste is inherited?
In the Vedic period, there was no discrimination against shudras(so called lower castes). Gita says that one's varna is to be understood from one's personal qualities and one's
karma (work), not one's birth. In its initial period, the caste system was flexible and it was merit and job based. One could migrate from one caste to other caste by changing one's profession. This view is supported by records of sages from the so-called "lower castes" who became Brahmins. For example, the Sage Vishwamitra belonged to kshyatria caste, and only later became recognized as a great Brahmin sage, indicating that his caste was not determined by birth. Similarly, Valmiki, once a low-caste robber, became a great sage. Veda Vyasa another sage, was the son of a fisherwoman. Vashista was a shudra and he became sage later and the mentor of Lord Rama.