The goblin(Banerjee) is back and trying to stir up a hornet's nest. Don't get me wrong, extremist moslems are a problem in Canada and they are a majority in their community despite what the Toronto Star types would like us to believe.

However, these(Banerjee) are not the kind of freaks who should be representing the Hindu community. He's just a noisy, publicity seeking fool who is more distracting than useful.











As violent protests spread in Middle East, Canadian Hindu group screening anti-Islam film to make a point about tolerance


http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/09/13/as-violent-protest-spread-in-middle-east-canadian-hindu-group-screening-anti-islam-film-to-make-a-point-about-tolerance/


Saying it is a necessary part of furthering religious tolerance in Canada, a Canadian Hindu organization is organizing a public screening of the film that enflamed deadly protests and growing anger abroad over its mockery of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.

“It promotes tolerance of different ideas and different viewpoints within Canada,” Ron Banerjee, director of the Canadian Hindu Advocacy, said Thursday. “It shows the value of tolerance to Muslims and the Islamic community and teaches them, in Canada, we do have tolerance and diversity and they are simply going to have to tolerate diverse viewpoints and opinions without rioting and without going berserk.”

Mr. Banerjee said he is working with contacts in the United States, including a Christian Coptic group, to secure a full-length, professional print of the movie, The Innocence of Muslims, that is apparently two hours long.

“We are going to end up getting a copy, that is the least of our worries. The bigger concern is to find a location and provide security.”

That is not a small concern. A short trailer of the film that first appeared on YouTube caused outrage in Egypt and Libya after it was translated into Arabic.

During angry demonstrations at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya, this week, U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other diplomatic officials were killed. Protests have since spread to other countries in the region.

Mr. Banerjee said the Toronto movie screening will be an inter-faith presentation and he is working with members of the Sikh, Jewish and Christian communities.

Maryam Dadabhoy, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the screening will bring needless hurt to Muslims and unnecessarily bring the controversy here.

“Everyone has a right to freedom of speech and can show whatever film they want but, at the same time, you should show respect to those around you,” Ms. Dadabhoy said.

“This just doesn’t make any sense. If they know it is only going to hurt people and incite more hatred, I don’t see how that fits in a multicultural community like Canada. By doing this it is only going to make things worse.

“Just because it is your right to do doesn’t mean you have to do it. The only purpose that comes to mind is inciting hate and upsetting Muslims. I don’t see the purpose of showing it here.”

The best approach would be for everyone to ignore it, she said.

“I hope our fellow Muslim-Canadian citizens here will take it as it is, it is just a viewing and keep their emotions under control. It is upsetting when I see people talk in such a way about our prophet and it also upsets me when people overreact.”

Despite the objections, Mr. Banerjee is unmoved. He has been behind other provocative actions that have upset Muslims in Toronto, including a planned “Walk Your Dog in Front of a Mosque” event scheduled for Friday.

He defends his aggressive approach, saying: “Show me an alternative approach that works. None of the other approaches have worked but they criticize mine.”

The issue of provocative films is one that resonates with the Hindu community and Mr. Banerjee said there is a double standard applied to the Hindu religion in Canada.

He pointed to Deepa Mehta, the Indian-Canadian filmmaker, who is fêted year after year at the Toronto International Film Festival despite protests over the depiction of Hindu culture in her cinematic trilogy Fire, Earth and Water. Mr. Banerjee said Hindu complaints against her films are ignored.

“As a minority community, we get victimized because we’re peaceful: We don’t behead people, we don’t blow up embassies. We are sick and tired of this moral inversion,” he said.

“Meanwhile, when it comes to Islam, there are these horrible, horrible reactions and, what’s almost worse, is the reaction of society — democratic societies — that seem to bow to it and apologize.

“The message seems to be: You have won because you are violent.”

Mr. Banerjee said he hopes the planned screening will not bring further violence or endanger Canadians here or abroad.

He said there are three or four organizations in the U.S. and one in Great Britain that are planning public screenings as well. He hopes to find strength in numbers.

“We have to remove the fear factor,” he said.

Banerjee certainly does not represent majority of Hindu and his timing of screening sucks. I am afraid that Liberals would not provide protection to the audience and hence harm may befall who go to watch the movie. However, I strongly support the basic premise that the right of the freedom of speech should be allowed to be exercised and protected. Those who cannot tolerate that should go back to the stone age country from where they migrated with those stone age values. Truth hurts.

Statues of gods are considered to be the most revered and holiest for Hindus and Buddhists.

Knowing this very well, Islamists blasted the ancient Bamiyan Buddha statues into smithereens. There was not a single protest or murmur from any of the Islamic countries or Muslims, for that matter.

Why should we worry about offending the sensitivities of Muslims?

As Mr. Banerjee rightly said, “It’s time to remove the fear factor”.

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However, I strongly support the basic premise that the right of the freedom of speech should be allowed to be exercised and protected..

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This Banerjee guy certainly does not represent me as a Hindu and I don't see the wisdom in further inciting flames by screening material that is clearly so offensive to so many people.

That said, "freedom of speech" isn't a "pick and choose" attribute of a democracy. In that context, he should be able to screen it so long as no laws are broken.

As offensive as it is, the idiots in Libya had no right to kill the poor US ambassador for it. I read somewhere the clip was posted on youtube in July and if not for these animals, nobody would've even heard about it. Now, everybody has seen and is watching the clip. In that sense, I completely agree with the spokeswoman for the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations in the article, the best course of action is just to ignore this (or at best, protest peacefully) and this thing will blow over.

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I agree with Blue Lobster. When the whole world is reacting whether positively or negatively for this movie, we Canadians have shown a sort of wisdom by not reacting to it. We are a multicultural country with respect for every religion and also patience and can live with each other in harmony but doing a special screening sort of thing will only increase hatred towards each other and everyone will wait for an opportunity to do the same.

And they call it a 'Religion of Peace '

Be it the Danish case , Salman Rushdie , Taslima Nasreen or umpteen cases , the reaction does not show peace by any measure but violence , violence and violence ....

So it is ok when some one destroys Buddha statues , but not when one person produces a movie as per his thinking or if some one writes a book or questions .

There have been controversial events earlier in other religions also - there was Passion of the Christ and others but no other religion reacts in a similar manner ...

That is what is bringing forth a phenomenon knows as 'Islam o Phobia' - ' You do anything against the religion and it will not be taken with a sane mind - ' Your hands may be chopped , you may be killed and like wise ' ' that s the message being send across ...Dare not say anything against our religion as we will not tolerate it - tolerance as its best .....

And that fear certainly needs to be countered and removed ......

How is US responsible for an individual's action ???

That logic , understanding and rational approach is clearly missing and every one is baying for US -- but then who said that religion is based on logic and understanding ....

And yet it is a religion of Peace !!

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