Our secular media has been ad nauseum covering the killing of a muslim man in dadri. The criticism ranged from
1) whether people can be stopped from eating what they want and
2) whether a cow's life is more valuable than he life of a man to
3) the cow being just another animal and not everyone considering it to be holy or their mother.
A few questions and thoughts always bother me whenever I hear these foolish, biased and misleading questions asked with malafide intentions, designed to obfuscate the main issue by introducing irrelevant topics.
A few rejoinders to these questions that I have come up with and I would appreciate if you could continue adding to it:
1. The question is whether people can be similarly stopped from reading what they prefer or watching plays that they like. We had cases of books like Taslima Nasreen's Lajja and Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses being banned because they were considered unislamic and because muslims resorted to violence and destruction. Was there outrage even a fraction of what we see in the dadri case?
2. The counter question would be whether a mere book or a few pages are worth more than the lives of all those killed over the burning of the kuran. If muslims and our seculars have so far justified the killing of people over the kuran being burnt or torn (even innocent people who were not concerned with it at all or people in a country other than where the case too place), then do they have any moral right to question hindus in this case.
3. If a muslim killing people because the kuran was burnt or torn is justified on the grounds that the kuran is sacred to the muslims, isn't the same reason valid for hindus as well and shouldn't the same consideration be extended to the religious sentiments of hindus?
Considering all the above, why is it that there is outrage over one muslims man being killed and collective silence (and even support and justification) for muslims riots and violence over kuran burnings and mohammed cartoons?
Hindus should understand the entire context of these issues and controversies created by a hypocritical and pseudo secular media and stop being defensive over matters of religion.
1) whether people can be stopped from eating what they want and
2) whether a cow's life is more valuable than he life of a man to
3) the cow being just another animal and not everyone considering it to be holy or their mother.
A few questions and thoughts always bother me whenever I hear these foolish, biased and misleading questions asked with malafide intentions, designed to obfuscate the main issue by introducing irrelevant topics.
A few rejoinders to these questions that I have come up with and I would appreciate if you could continue adding to it:
1. The question is whether people can be similarly stopped from reading what they prefer or watching plays that they like. We had cases of books like Taslima Nasreen's Lajja and Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses being banned because they were considered unislamic and because muslims resorted to violence and destruction. Was there outrage even a fraction of what we see in the dadri case?
2. The counter question would be whether a mere book or a few pages are worth more than the lives of all those killed over the burning of the kuran. If muslims and our seculars have so far justified the killing of people over the kuran being burnt or torn (even innocent people who were not concerned with it at all or people in a country other than where the case too place), then do they have any moral right to question hindus in this case.
3. If a muslim killing people because the kuran was burnt or torn is justified on the grounds that the kuran is sacred to the muslims, isn't the same reason valid for hindus as well and shouldn't the same consideration be extended to the religious sentiments of hindus?
Considering all the above, why is it that there is outrage over one muslims man being killed and collective silence (and even support and justification) for muslims riots and violence over kuran burnings and mohammed cartoons?
Hindus should understand the entire context of these issues and controversies created by a hypocritical and pseudo secular media and stop being defensive over matters of religion.
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