Salman Rushdie pulls out of literature festival due to threats on life.
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Posted on: 20-01-12 23:21:24
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Originally posted by icecube
Atleast for me the person (PBUH) is more than my father and mother...
Listen , please be tolerant as you should be you being god fearing duck , without hiding my emotions and thoughts I am writing this ...
as soon as I read above sentence ..it came out of my mouth... W T F !! and I am still fuming.
and I am not sorry I said that because anybody keeping any unseen entity above ones parents is a moron of highest order... its written in first section, middle part and in the last chapter in any holy book written ever in the history of religions. period. Go take a icecube cold water bath and read again. and please dump your mentor , he is hiding concept behind pbuh from you.
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Originally posted by san-hugo
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Originally posted by icecube
Atleast for me the person (PBUH) is more than my father and mother...
Listen , please be tolerant as you should be you being god fearing duck , without hiding my emotions and thoughts I am writing this ...
as soon as I read above sentence ..it came out of my mouth... W T F !! and I am still fuming.
and I am not sorry I said that because anybody keeping any unseen entity above ones parents is a moron of highest order... its written in first section, middle part and in the last chapter in any holy book written ever in the history of religions. period. Go take a icecube cold water bath and read again. and please dump your mentor , he is hiding concept behind pbuh from you.
Ah.... "the god fearing duck", who is supposed to keep his/her mouth shut while the whole world keeps hurling abuses...and when the "god fearing duck" speaks (or rather only "replies" ) he/she is branded with all sorts of names....What a world we live in brother....
No matter what the world says...Reality will never change, and it does not depend on belief for its existence....
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Originally posted by icecube
If someone comes in and hails abuses at his/her father, and if he/she is a true son/daughter and really loves his/her father...then there is no way that he/she will stay calm...
And what do you recommend a person should do in such a case .. say in case of Salman Rushdie , what would you do in case you face him once day ?
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Fido.
Even though the Australian newspaper may be bit biased against India, I still think banning the book was a ridiculous idea than and preventing him from attending is a ridiculous idea now.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/writers-protest-runs-foul-of-indian-law-20120121-1qb57.html
And look what this moron has to say
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/21/us-india-literature-festival-idUSTRE80K08O20120121
Such events make a mockery of the concept of democracy. And I just can prevent laughing from reading about the "limits on freedom of expression".
BTW, I have started reading book (thanks to public library here and thanks to Canada for not banning the book), but his writing style didn't suit my taste and I had to return the book. But I still support Rushide and his freedom of expression.
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Originally posted by icecube
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Originally posted by G13
Sad situation. Even the person he \"insulted\" in his books would have readily forgiven him.
Without doubt, the person (PBUH) would have forgiven him - but his votaries will never...
Freedom of speech comes with responsibility...one cannot say anything and then call it \"Freedom of Expression\"....there has to be limits...
If someone comes in and hails abuses at his/her father, and if he/she is a true son/daughter and really loves his/her father...then there is no way that he/she will stay calm...
Atleast for me the person (PBUH) is more than my father and mother...
If some one insults my father or a figure who is more than my father or mother I wont be going after that guy like a rabid dog to harm him-and you say you follow a peaceful religion?
If the almighty wanted to finish Salman Rushdie off he would have done it by now-he does not need mullah henchmen to do his job.
I have copied this from the Wikipedia
"Rushdie has never been physically harmed for the book, but others associated with it have suffered violent attacks. Hitoshi Igarashi, its Japanese translator, was stabbed to death on 11 July 1991; Ettore Capriolo, the Italian translator, was seriously injured in a stabbing the same month[12]; William Nygaard, the publisher in Norway, barely survived an attempted assassination in Oslo in October 1993, and Aziz Nesin, the Turkish translator, was the intended target in the events that led to the Sivas massacre on 2 July 1993 in Sivas, Turkey, which resulted in the deaths of 37 people.\"
I will add some more about the peaceful religion
200 people died bcos of Danish Cartoons
A British teacher was hounded after she suggested a 6 year old kid to name the teddy bear Mohammed.
Danish film maker Theo Von Gaugh-stabbed and killed by a Moroccan -bcos he made a film on Islam.
I can go on and on-
If you guys want the world to treat you with respect come out of stone age thinking-fight for secularism,equal rights,better treatment of minorities,invest your minds for scientific advances and not react violently to every perceived insult
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Originally posted by icecube
If someone comes in and hails abuses at his/her father, and if he/she is a true son/daughter and really loves his/her father...then there is no way that he/she will stay calm...
It reminded me a story I read a long time back. I don’t remember the exact words but the essence is as under:
There was Fakeer sitting at his place and one man came and started saying all bad words to him. That man was a follower of other religion and had some disagreements with the Fakeer. The Fakeer stayed cool and calm – replied nothing back to him. After venting out, that man went away.
Another man, who was the follower of Fakeer, asked Fakeer why he hasn’t replied back that man in the same language. Fakeer replied to his follower that if someone come to you and offer something to you and you don’t accept it, the offering will stay with the person who has offered. In same way, that man came to me, and shouted bad words to me but I haven’t accepted his words so they will stay with him. Had I replied him in the same manner means I have accepted his words which I didn’t.
May God give wisdom to all of us.
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A Delhite in Toronto
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Originally posted by Delhite
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Originally posted by icecube
If someone comes in and hails abuses at his/her father, and if he/she is a true son/daughter and really loves his/her father...then there is no way that he/she will stay calm...
It reminded me a story I read a long time back. I don’t remember the exact words but the essence is as under:
There was Fakeer sitting at his place and one man came and started saying all bad words to him. That man was a follower of other religion and had some disagreements with the Fakeer. The Fakeer stayed cool and calm – replied nothing back to him. After venting out, that man went away.
Another man, who was the follower of Fakeer, asked Fakeer why he hasn’t replied back that man in the same language. Fakeer replied to his follower that if someone come to you and offer something to you and you don’t accept it, the offering will stay with the person who has offered. In same way, that man came to me, and shouted bad words to me but I haven’t accepted his words so they will stay with him. Had I replied him in the same manner means I have accepted his words which I didn’t.
May God give wisdom to all of us.
Nice one .
