Comments on: Freedom of Expression in Qatar

By: kisan

kisan — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:10:32 +0000

Mike, since when is Mike a Hindu name? Are you ashamed of Hinduism to have adopted a Christian name or is it just for commenting on the internet?

Hinduism is learning the worst aspects of intolerance from Muslims.

Hinduism has plenty of honour killings and is now big on violent threats against blasphemers too.

I am very bigoted against backward honour killings and violence against blasphemers.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:07:37 +0000

Dear Kisan, yes, I’m a Hindu. Are you bigoted against Hindus? The difference between Hinduism and Islam is that there is none to very little scriptural support of violence against members of other religions. Hinduism doesn’t purport to be superior to all other religions and has a long tradition of tolerance. I do not in any way support or condone the violent behavior of some Hindus.

Unlike in Islam, peaceful Hindus will not be socially shunned or ex-communicated for voicing their objections to the actions of fellow Hindus as can be seen in Islam. However, that does not mean Hindus need to remain mute when they are offended. Freedom of speech, at least in the U.S., allows me to state my opinion.

And as you can see, Yawn’s post, demonstrates the typical Muslim supremacist attitude towards Hindus.

By: Yawn

Yawn — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:40:07 +0000

Idolators are fair game, jahiliyya. Whereas the Prophet Mohammed pbuh of Islam the one true faith and a gift for all mankind is beyond criticism.

Religious defamation doesn’t cover idolators, clearly.

By: alfie

alfie — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:27:12 +0000

Hindu fanatics certainly do copy the template from Islamic fanatics who got their beards in a twist in India after Salman Rushdie was persecuted, followed by Taslima Nasreen and others. No doubt about it at all.

By: kisan

kisan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:08:01 +0000

Hindu Fanatics are now getting their dhotis in a twist about some art by a Carlos Ramos. Hindu Fanatics like to emulate cartoon rage and are now sending death threats also to an artist in Goa for blasphemy and threatening to cut off his fingers.

Mike, above is a Hindu pretending to be not so.

Sure Muslims are hypocrites in this Qatar case but fanatic Hindus are just as bad. They look at Muslim craziness and think to themselves, um we should do that too.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:55:13 +0000

The point of much of his work is to degrade and humiliate Hindus. Has he created any paintings of Mohammad in titillating poses. Of course not. In the world of Islam, Hindus are lower than Christians and Jews. Islam is a disgusting, supremacist religion. Frankly, it is good to see some push back against these arrogant Muslims. If an artist had painted Muhammad in a similar vein, he wouldn’t be sued. They would attempt to kill him and feel completely virtuous in their actions.

By: The Tao

The Tao — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:24:03 +0000

Is the offer of citizenship to MF Husain evidence of a new, enlightened approach to religious expression, or could it have something to do with the fact that his artwork offended Hindu, and not Muslim, sensitivities?

Or that non-Islamic gods ought to be denigrated anyway?

By: Faisal

Faisal — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:06:44 +0000

He is hugely popular figure in India and his work is appreciated by every level of Indian, from Calcuttan cabbies to upmarket Delhi elites. Most Indians who’ve commented publicly on this issue are appalled that one of India’s most famous sons should have to suffer being hounded out of his own country.

The Hindu newspaper said that his “impending change of nationality brings to a close one of the sorriest chapters in independent India’s secular history”.

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:43:24 +0000

When a man who is aged almost 100 years old takes up citizenship in a land that has given him hospitality after being hounded out of his home with death threats and threats of violence, vandalism and legal harassment, where he can reside in peace unlike in London where he was subjected to the same experience, I find it hard to hold it against him on any level. Dubai, Qatar and the UAE are also home to a large, wealthy Indian diaspora who probably collect his work and he can at least be in some proximity to his homeland in that way.

Yeah, Qatar is hypocritical, what are you going to do. Where else is he supposed to go. Good luck to him.

By: mirax

mirax — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:38:02 +0000

There is also the point that many of the cases filed against Hussain have little more than nuisance value and arent going to see light of day in his lifetime. It is one of the vagaries of indian life and needs to be simply shrugged off. Like the time a few years ago when an actress in Tamil Nadu mentioned pre-marital sex (she simply acknowledged its existence) and then was assailed by dozens of obscenity/corrupting youth cases filed against her – it’s all froth at one level.

Also the Delhi High Court and the Supreme court threw out several of the cases against him in 2008 and that was a damn good precedence.

It is the violence that Hussain should be wary of and India’s government should def provide security for him against such threats.