In the name of freedom of speech, should anyone write or draw such thing which insults religious sentiments of the people. And then as reaction to this should people get vandalised their country’s own property, should do violent protests which can hurt or kill their own people. Answer is NO for both questions.
Recent such incident getting worse day by day, Now this problem mushrooming in India too, from Kashmir to Hyderabad, taking in Uttar Pradesh and other regions on the way. That was not enough so in the protests in UP, a state where the government is precariously perched and could see elections anytime, a five-star hotel was vandalised by the protestors. And, in a first of its kind in independent India, a Samajwadi Party minister offered a bounty of Rs 51 crore on the cartoonist’s head, plus gold — which will be raised from the Muslim community. (News Source Rediff.com)
What the heck? Instead of telling people to calm down and raise this issue other way, a politician behaving such way. What a shame? Why is an Indian minister, sworn to uphold the Indian Constitution, abetting murder and why is no action being taken against him?
In the past too, a company put Hindu deities on toilet covers; someone else put them on footwear; while another put them on underwear. Only last week, there was a report about a European company putting Durga images on beer bottles. Why these people wants to get publicity such a wrong way. Such actions could trigger a wake-up call to the animal hiding inside the human. Someone must really stop all this…
9 Responses
Prakash
February 21st, 2006 at 5:47 pm
1hi
true man…….
people are mad….
i heard that one of the german paper had published a cartoon of iran footbal team as suicide bombers……now silly people are going to be mad..
i dont know where these going to enbd man,,,
for me i am confident in me and my religion and have faith…i dont care what other people think about my religion…
Prakash
Tarun
February 22nd, 2006 at 12:04 pm
2@Prakash
Yes you are right, most of the people are mad. They don’t think what they are doing in such cases. I have doubt if most of them ever seen that cartoon.
Prasad
February 24th, 2006 at 6:41 am
3u know.. in the wake of all these things.. what happened was.. all those cartoons were even published in the websites… and now all over the world ppl r seeing those..
this is too much.. why r ppl hell bent on making fun out of other religions.. we r all jus human beings.. religions are all secondary.. we all should realise this..
Dawn
February 24th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
4True…I had posted similar on freedom of speech…but it didnt go this wide..:) as I limited till individual basis…!!
But its..true that often freedom is mis-used… very sad!!!
Good elements you brought in …
cheers
Gangadhar
February 28th, 2006 at 9:55 am
5What u said are so true,Tarun..
And you know..our Indian Kama sutra is being used in London night clubs and they are quite successful commercially!!
Go through the link here
(via)Boing Boing
Hiren
February 28th, 2006 at 9:58 am
6Plain fact is that religion should be kept out of creative expression when so many different avenues of creative freedom are avaiable.
archie
February 28th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
7I donot think faith is a matter of hinderance to any kind of creative expression. The wealth of temples that were built in during medieval times in South India are a testament to this!
However, it is true that fanaticism kills rationale and blinds reason, be it in science or religion.
So, I guess it is not what we believe in but how we chose to believe it that matters
Tarun
March 1st, 2006 at 10:12 pm
8@Gangadhar, @Dawn, @Prasad: unfortunately it’s happening
@Hiren, @Archie: thanks for visiting and that’s true
Keshi
April 11th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
9hey Tarun those incidents r of outrageous and very disrespectful for any faith. Freedom of speech don’t suggest freedom of abuse.
Keshi.
RSS feed for comments on this post · TrackBack URI
Leave a reply
Categories
Archives
Meta
Calendar
निठल्ला चिंतन
Recent Entries
Recent Comments
Most Commented
Zero Hour is proudly powered by WordPress - BloggingPro theme by: Design Disease