Liberalism vs. Religion

The literal definition of a 'liberal' person is someone who is ready to accept  or respect different school of thoughts, opinions and ideas of every individual without having any personal contradictions to it. But unfortunately, the concept of liberalism is highly misunderstood because of high ratio of social issues involving religion, cultural and traditional barriers. And just because of having such taboos in consideration a liberal person is somewhat not considered religious and a religious person is not considered someone with a liberal approach. I've seen people debating about this issue with full fledged aggressiveness that turns out to be a conflict from where a personal war arise and that's the point we all lose our so called liberalism because honestly I tell you something the moment you start showing your intolerance and abusiveness to any thought and calling yourself a liberal person, exactly shows how much you're aware of its definition.  No, that does not mean that you have to agree with everything or you have to show acceptance of a certain idea but have enough tolerance to deal with the idea that has been presented to you no matter how badly it conflict your views, having an amount of respect to that is the basic characteristic of liberalism.

  So what basically our religion says? I say every religion on this planet tells you to mind your own business and pay attention to your own deeds despite of getting curious 24/7 that what lifestyle other people are living and how does it effect their deeds. It does not matter if you are a follower of Islam, Christianity, Bhuddism or any other religion in the world, the statistics of ethics and morality remains the same. Let me give you a very common example of our daily life; we see a girl wearing short skirt (something that is pretty much unacceptable for our society) and the other girl covered in Hijab, so from a religious perspective you are not suppose to judge who is pious and who is not, who is well-dressed and who is not, who is a SINNER and who is NOT. Deep in your heart you know your boundaries so you do not follow what you feel is not right but in the same way you are not even suppose to point out your fingers to someone who is doing it. This is EXACTLY what liberalism says too.

 On the other hand liberalism does not even mean that one should forget all the boundaries and limitations and go wild in public. NO. In fact it says to keep your limits in your mind before you do something. Because at the end of the day ethics are one basic asset of liberalism.

 There is no war between liberalism and religion and the thought of practicing them together is not incorrect. Some people believe that both are different things and can not be practiced together, whereas, I believe you can be liberal while practicing your religion because what both the things promote is somehow linked to each other. You can be liberal and religious both at the same time so I guess I can say that both can go hand in hand.