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Oh, the secular rush to prove that Hindus are behind every crime!

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Oh, the secular rush to prove that Hindus are behind every crime!

While police was investigating the Bangalore blast on Sunday that killed a woman, some tweets were sent out by a Twitter account @LatestAbdul threatening of more blasts if pro-ISIS Indian Mehdi Biswas was not released.

Now it has come to light that the tweets were sent by a “Hindu” boy who assumed the Muslim username. Apparently the boy is a minor, and most probably mentally deranged, which is why the police has not disclosed his identity.

However, it appears that the police revealed to the media that the boy was a “Hindu”.

Couldn’t the police just have said that the tweets were not sent by a Muslim man and it was a case of impersonation? Why was the need to disclose the religion of the boy, who could as well be deranged, as per the police themselves?

And even if it was revealed by the police, Couldn’t the media have avoided naming religion of the boy. Just tell that the tweets were not sent by a Muslim man and it was a case of impersonation.

It was done so, because it was a “secular” thing to do so.

Because it helps in conspiracy theories that Muslims can never do anything wrong. It is always Hindus who carry out such false-flag operations and blame the Muslims.

Remember, people like Congress leader Digvijay Singh and Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt had released a book that claimed that Mumbai terror attacks were carried out by RSS. Such conspiracy theories are hugely popular among domestic Muslim circles.

An extension of such theories is used in Pakistan, where everything is blamed on India. The latest being the claim that Peshawar school attack was a false-flag operation by India i.e. Hindu groups dressed as Talibani terrorists killed Pakistani children!

While the Indian media is not yet “secular” enough to endorse the Pakistani conspiracy theories, they are always obliging to help in spreading domestic conspiracy theories, such as 26/11 being a RSS conspiracy.

To give credence to crazy conspiracy theories that Digvijay Singh and Mahesh Bhatt endorse, one needs “proof”, and thus it was important to highlight that a Hindu boy carried out a false-flag operation on Twitter.

And that is why this information was “leaked” by the police and the media put it prominently in their reports.

OpIndia.com would like to make it clear that we are not suspecting what the Bangalore police is saying. It could indeed be a false-flag operation by a Hindu boy, whether mentally deranged or sound. But it doesn’t prove anything bigger, as some on Twitter would like everyone to believe.

However, the secular army on Twitter is all out to prove that after this incident, there is no doubt that every crime attributed to Muslim groups is committed by some Hindu.

This is a regular phenomenon now. We saw it earlier this year when a Muslim youth was killed in a hate attack in Pune. A Hindu boy was wrongly blamed for another incident then. Please read this report from those days to understand the case.

To sum it up: A Hindu youth was attacked by Muslim groups in Pune. His injured photo was then circulated on WhatsApp, and it was claimed that he was a Muslim guy who had put offensive pictures of Shivaji on Facebook. The boy clarified that he was Hindu and not a Muslim, and he never put up any pictures on Facebook.

But look what the secular army on Twitter did. They spun this incident of WhatsApp hoax to mean that the Hindu boy, who was himself a victim, had undertook a Muslim name and put morphed pictures of Shivaji to create communal tensions. A victim was made criminal by these people because it suited their political and ideological agenda.

Among those who peddled such lies was a blogger called Farzana Versey, one of the vocal apologists for Islamic fundamentalism. See how she blames the poor Hindu boy of committing the false-flag operation, without conclusive proof. And when pointed out in the article that she might be defaming the boy, she refused to correct herself or update her blog.

It appears that these conspiracy theorists are fan of false-flag operations. Maybe because they themselves indulge in false-flag operations to defame their opponents.

After all such an incident was caught red handed by blogger Akhilesh Mishra. Congress supporters, who happened to be Muslims, had made fake accounts in Hindu names and were abusing others. See the tweet below and click the link contained in the tweet:


Yes, the latest incident in Bangalore indeed appears to be a false-flag operation. At best, it is the case of pot calling the kettle black when it comes to false-flag operations.

And wait seculars, please don’t use this Twitter false-flag operation to prove that the Bangalore blast itself was a false-flag operation by some Hindu group. Or have you already done that? We will not be surprised!

Protests over PK is worrying, but we should have been worried over these too

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Protests over PK is worrying, but we should have been worried over these too

When a group of hooligans start tearing posters and vandalizing private property, we need to worry. We need to worry not because it’s a law and order situation – tearing posters is still a misdemeanor, not a grave crime – but we need to worry because it shows the level of intolerance growing in the society.

However, the vanguards of freedom and tolerance in our society appear to worry only when a particular group protests, that too when a particular party is in power.

If we go by the commentary of those who identify themselves as left-liberal, we’d be to believe that such intolerance was never shown earlier. And the only time Bollywood was under attack was when BJP ruled last – from 1998 to 2004.

If we go by the discourse promoted by these commentators, there were protests against movies like Fire and Water, and then there was golden era under Manmohan Singh, and finally fascism has returned with Narendra Modi.

But even a person with average memory can say that this is pure propaganda.

Our great commentators are known to be selectively deaf and blind to follies of their own and of their fellow travelers. They are to be as much blamed for this rise in intolerance as those hooligans who are tearing posters of PK.

Kolkata protests by Muslim groups
When fringe Hindu groups see such protests attracting no criticism or action, they get into a competitive match.

Note that those hooligans are indulged in competitive intolerance. When they see that intolerance of other groups is ignored and similar deeds go unpunished, they try to match the groups’ intolerance.

Just in case you think we are making this stuff up, do consider the following incidents:

Barely weeks after Congress returned to power in 2004, a movie called Amu was to be released. The movie was based on anti-Sikh genocide of 1984 and it showed how some Congress leaders were involved in killing of Sikhs.

The movie was earlier cleared by Anupam Kher, who was appointed as the Censor Board chief by the Vajpayee government, but Kher was sacked after Congress came back to power and Amu producers were harassed. Censor Board asked for various cuts on pretexts like the movie could hurts sentiments, it can cause law and order problems, and more. After tones of cuts, the movie was given an “A” certification and allowed to release.

Did you hear any liberal criticize this? Now compare how much noise the liberals made when there were some protests against Parzania, a movie on 2002 riots.

So a movie critical of Congress was almost killed by the UPA government appointed Censor Board as soon as the party was back in power. There were no op-eds written by liberals protesting it.

And the Censor Board, since then, has always indulged in such irrational censoring while our liberals have looked the other way.

Remember that in 2006, few months after Amu was mauled by cuts, India banned the internationally acclaimed movie The Da Vinci Code. Apparently it would have hurt Christian sentiments and created a law and order problem.

The feelings of the Christian community, widely considered to be peaceful and tolerant, were again “protected” by the Censor Board when it acted “pro-actively” and decided to cut some scenes in a comedy movie Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal.

Yes, a comedy movie was censored! If the same would have been done by a Hindu group, those groups would have been criticized, and rightfully so, for having no sense of humor and having sad lives. Did we hear the same about protesting Christian groups from any of these commentators?

This was not the only comedy movie that was censored. Only a few months back, Akshay Kumar starrer Entertainment was asked by Censor Board to change the name of a character as it would have hurt the sentiments of Muslims.

No kidding. A character’s name, not even his actions parodying any holy figure, but the name could have hurt sentiments, and the Censor Board asked the producers to change the name.

It was just a few months back, do you remember any tweets saying freedom of expression or artistic freedom was being assaulted by religious fundamentalists? And all these years, the UPA government appointed board was humoring such demands.

So much so that during Vishwaroopam protests, some Muslim groups demanded that Censor Board should be restructured demanding reservations for Muslim community leaders in the board!

Perhaps if BJP had not won, UPA-III would have been working on a bill promising reservations to Muslim clerics in Censor Board. Who knows, maybe next time when they return to power, they will do it! And believe us, our liberals will keep quiet if and when it happens.

Violent protests by Bajrang Dal and VHP against PK: Match Fixing?

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Violent protests by Bajrang Dal and VHP against PK: Match Fixing?

PK released all over India amidst much hype on 19th December 2014. The story was kept under wraps right till the release date. Once the film was released, it was evident that PK was a satire on the ills that plague religion. There was some outrage online saying the film is “Anti-Hindu”, but as we have already explained, much of this outrage is mis-directed.

The interesting point to note is, even when such Online outrage was going on Social Media and to an extent on Mainstream Media, no untoward incidents or protests happened on the ground. Now suddenly, a good 9 days after PK’s release, after it has exhausted all the hype generated, some groups have begun vandalising theatres. News reports claim these people are either affiliated to VHP or Bajrang Dal.

Already people on Social media have begun to smell a rat, especially with regards to the timing of these so called protests. Even some very senior and respected journalists have cast aspersions on the authenticity of these actions:


In fact Chitra Subramanian goes on to claim that such activities are “Standard Operation Procedures” (SOP) down south. Here are the views of some more Twitterati:


While we wonder about the timing, It certainly seems to have caused the desired effects:


It is important to note that PK had one of the lowest pre-release promotion: No Appearance on any TV shows, No Public shows etc. Knowing that Aamir Khan is a master salesman, we wonder how he missed this trick.

Or has he diverted the pre-release marketing budget to post-release, and have we missed his trick? After all, Bollywood is known to use such means, like the time Shah Rukh Khan has his tiff with Shiv Sena just before My Name is Khan released.

How the Government swung the GST Act around

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How the Government swung the GST Act around

It has taken 15-odd long years for the GST Bill to finally winding its way into the Parliament. In 2000, Vajpayee, the then PM, had initiated the discussion on GST by setting up an empowered committee. Then during the UPA-1, Chidambaram announced that GST would roll out from 1st April 2010. But we all know that it didn’t make that deadline. GST needed all the States and the Centre to be on one common understanding since it is a tax reform which moots uniform Indirect Taxation all over India. Of course, UPA  failed to get develop any sort of consensus, even after being in power for 10 years. Then how did a BJP government manage to achieve this within 10 months?

Some “Journalists” would like you to believe this: When UPA was ruling, BJP states played politics and opposed the GST Bill, and now that a BJP Government has been installed at the centre, all BJP states have agreed to the Centre and have compromised.

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Well, a little bit of fact-finding will make it clear that nothing of this sort happened. Till the last discussion of GST under UPA, the states had some major demands:

1. Keeping Petroleum out of GST ambit
2. Keeping Alcohol out of GST ambit
3. Keeping Entry Tax out of GST ambit
4. Some sort of guarantee from Centre for potential revenue loss

Some of these demands were made by BJP states too, including the Gujarat Government then ruled by Modi and the Madhya Pradesh Government. So if we believe these journos, did the states take back these demands? No. They continued with the same demands. Then how did the Centre arrive at a consensus?

The BJP Government was desperate to get GST out as soon as possible. They understood that this single reform could kick-start the Indian economy. Already 120+ countries have adopted GST, so India is already far too late. And the BJP Government didn’t want to delay it further. So, it decided to accept some of the demands of the state, and give them some comfort, so that they can agree with the centre at other places. Out of the above 4 demands, 3 were accepted, and a bonus benefit was passed on to the state:

1. Petroleum was kept out of GST
2. Alcohol was kept out of GST
3. A proposal was sent to the law ministry to work out a “Constitutional Guarantee” to compensate states
4. And the Bonus: The power to states of levying an additional 1% tax levy, for maximum 2 years, to help augment state revenues

In exchange for this, the Centre convinced the states to allow Entry Tax to be subsumed into the GST ambit.
From this, it should be clear that GST was achieved not because BJP states bowed to a BJP centre, but because the Centre was genuinely focused on allaying the fears of States.

Nehru admirer expresses disgust at Madan Mohan Malviya awarded Bharat Ratna

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Nehru admirer expresses disgust at Madan Mohan Malviya awarded Bharat Ratna

Ramchandra Guha, one of the leading intellectuals in a system established by Congress governments and one of the biggest admirers of Jawaharlal Nehru, today expressed disappointment and disgust at the decision to award Bharat Ratna to Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya.

The NDA government had earlier in the day announced giving Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award of India, to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Madan Mohan Malviya, an educationist who founded BHU (Benaras Hindu University).

While the decision was welcomed across the board, a few like Ramchandra Guha used the opportunity to display their disgust because they thought it smacked of parochialism.


For those who don’t know, Mr Guha is one of the well-known admirers of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. In fact, he is often called the first apologist of Independent India.

Mr Guha is deemed an apologist for Pandit Nehru because he, as a historian, whitewashed all the negative and weak characters of the first Prime Minister of India.

Madan Mohan Malviya
Ironically, the same Mr. Guha didn’t object when Congress government led by Dr. Manmohan Singh felicitated Madan Mohan Malviya in the year 2011.

Books, often termed as history books, written by Mr Guha never talk about Nehru’s controversial aspects like him believing in astrology, him being opposed to his daughter’s marriage on grounds of religion, and him being a confused administrator.

Due to such whitewashing of Pandit Nehru’s persona, Mr Guha is widely regarded as a Nehru apologist rather than a Nehru admirer.

However, his disgust at another Pandit – Madan Mohan Malviya – took everyone by surprise.

One would have expected a Congress endorsed intellectual to give some respect o Pandit Malviya, who was once the President of the Congress party, but Mr Guha tried everything to diminish the statue of Pandit Malviya through a series of tweets.

Mr Guha, who also doubles up as cricket expert when not praising Nehru, had on earlier occasions disapproved comparing contemporary greats, calling it an exercise in futility. He opposed comparisons of historical figures like Nehru and Patel or cricketers like Tendulkar and Ganguly.

But he forgot his own rule today. Overwhelmed by the disgust he felt at Pandit Malviya, he ended up comparing Madan Mohan Malviya with all his contemporaries to cut down his size and stature.

This hypocrisy was well caught with a popular Twitter user:


While one can merely guess what caused Mr Guha to feel so disgusted, many believe that it was prevalent Hinduphobia among the Congress endorsed intellectuals that made him do so.

Madan Mohan Malviya always underscored his Hindu roots and expressed pride in the Hindu culture – a behaviour that always most certainly fills “secular” and “liberal” people with disgust and hatred.

As OpIndia.com had pointed out earlier, this is how secular-liberal Hindus react when they see a religious-cultural Hindu.

Dear Hindus outraging at PK, look what babas are doing. They are converting Hindus to Christians!

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Dear Hindus outraging at PK, look what babas are doing. They are converting Hindus to Christians!

OpIndia.com had earlier written why it was not worth the time and effort of Hindus to protest against the Bollywood movie PK, accusing it of “Anti-Hinduism”.

While some grouse against the movie is valid, the movie primarily targets babas and godmen, who are not really bringing any benefits to the Hindu society or religion.

In fact, on occasions, they prove to be very dangerous and end up eroding the strength – both in terms of population as well as in terms of spirituality – of Hindus.

Religious conversion by deceit
A fraud baba who converted to Christianity and then converted his followers (Read the story here).

And this fact is being used as a tool by evangelists.

It is no secret that Christian missionaries and evangelists have been targeting India for religious conversions. They have had exceptional success in North East India and now they are targeting the mainland India in the last couple of decades.

(You can follow the Twitter handle @ trackevangelism to know more about their activities)

OpIndia.com has found out that one of the strategies employed by such evangelists is to involve local babas for mass conversions of Hindus into Christianity.

Their modus operandi includes “convincing” the babas to accept Christianity, who in turn preach the gospel and message of Jesus Christ to their unsuspecting Hindu followers who have been blindly believing them.

Although evangelists claim that such babas accept Jesus Christ as their saviour of their own, in most of the cases it is allurement and fraud that makes these babas jump on the conversion bandwagon.

One such example can be found here. Please watch this YouTube video, especially the confession of the “baba” and the testimony of the evangelist working in India, whose identity has been kept secret in the video, from 7:37 minutes onwards:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCaIYsd0t5w&t=7m37s

If this religious conversion of baba was “genuine”, there was no need to conceal the identity of the evangelist who made it possible. He is shown as reporting the activities of the baba to his bosses abroad on how the baba had been spreading the message of Jesus Christ among Hindus after joining the missionaries.

Please note that the evangelist claims that the baba is spreading Christianity by “performing miracles”. Will any rational person ever believe this?

It is clear that the baba is fooling his unsuspecting Hindu followers and claiming those miracles as being born out of his newly found faith in Jesus Christ.

These miracles could be simple tricks that any magician does, or he could be “healing” people by mixing medicines in “prasad” of Jesus Christ, as is often done by Christian missionaries in remote and rural parts of India.

Since those Hindus were already following the baba and believing his words, it becomes easier for the evangelists to reach out to the Hindus and get them converted through such babas.

They just need to buy one baba, and they get his followers free!

In such a scenario, should we really take it to our heart if a Bollywood movie attacks babas? Yes, they should attack these evangelists too who have been fooling the people as much as these fake babas. But we would be committing a mistake by allowing such babas to spread their network.

Keep in mind that Sant Rampal of Haryana, now in jail, had convinced his followers not to worship Hindu gods and had declared himself a reincarnation of Sant Kabirdas. Next step could have been to declare himself a disciple of Jesus Christ and ask his followers to become Christians.

We need to save Hinduism from such babas more than from a Bollywood movie.

Cartoon: How secular-liberal Hindus see religious-cultural Hindus

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[test_ure] Following is a cartoon from Disney, which shows Minnie mouse, a fictional character, getting shocked at the sight of a common mouse, a real character:

Mouse vs Mouse
The Hinduphobia that is ingrained and innate among Indian pseudo-seculars

OpIndia.com believes that this cartoon captures the essence of the attitude so-called secular-liberal Hindus have towards the religious-cultural Hindu.

In the cartoon, Minnie mouse feels she is superior to a common mouse and feels almost shocked and disgusted after seeing a common mouse.

Similarly, despite being born a Hindu and possessing the secular-liberal thanks to the culture they grew up in, such secular-liberal Hindus don’t feel like Hindus and feel superior to a common Hindu.

And their attitude is as funny and ironic as the attitude of Minnie mouse in the above cartoon.[/test_ure]

AAP resorting to lies and fabrication to win Delhi assembly elections?

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AAP resorting to lies and fabrication to win Delhi assembly elections?

Even though the Aam Aadmi Party accuses BJP of lying and using “photoshop” to create confusion and misinformation among voters, increasingly AAP is using the same strategy to win the upcoming assembly elections in Delhi.

Fake poster by AAP
The AAP poster trying to mislead voters about BJP’s CM candidate in Delhi. (Picture courtesy)

It all started with AAP projecting BJP leader Jagdish Mukhi as the BJP’s Chief Ministerial candidate for Delhi even though BJP had not made any such announcement.

AAP even put posters in Delhi projecting Mukhi as BJP’s Chief Ministerial candidate – a step that was called “childish” by Mukhi, who also mulled taking legal action against the party.

However, in absence of BJP taking any legal action, it appears that AAP has become emboldened and decided to extend this strategy in other fields, especially on social media.

This strategy was used when a picture of Arvind Kejriwal sitting in the business class of an aircraft was released a couple of weeks ago. At that time some AAP supporters themselves photoshopped a picture and falsely claimed that the photoshop was done by BJP to defame Kejriwal.

Following is one such tweet that shows AAP using “false flag operation” as a strategy:


Such false claims about BJP photoshopping picture was made even when AAP’s official website had put “Modi for PM, Kejriwal for CM” banner.

Later, both the business class photo of Kejriwal, as well as the official website showing pro-Modi banner, was accepted by AAP leadership as being genuine cases, but not before hordes of AAP supporters on social media claimed it to be a photoshop work by BJP.

OpIndia.com would like to make it clear that BJP is no saint in such cases and their supporters have also been caught using photoshopped images to make wrong claims, but such acts appear hypocritical when AAP, which claims to indulge in “clean politics”, does it in such blatant manner.

One of the popular incidents where a prominent BJP supporter was found circulating fake and photoshopped picture was when Priti Gandhi, a BJP worker from Mumbai, tweeted a poster that showed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange endorsed Narendra Modi’s credentials as “incorruptible”.

WikiLeaks had officially issued a clarification earlier this year claiming that the poster was fake. BJP had to suffer embarrassment over the episode. Priti had accepted her mistake then.

But in the latest episode, Priti Gandhi herself appears to be a victim of fabricated and fudged poster created by AAP supporters.

Following tweet is being circulated on social media with help of AAP and Congress supporters. The poster claims to prove that Priti did a U-turn on the issue of insurance bill:


However, when OpIndia.com decided to find the truth of it, we found that it was a case of misrepresentation of facts to make it appear that Priti had earlier tweeted against the insurance bill.

The context of the first tweet in the poster can be found by clicking here, and it is very apparent that Priti was referring to insurance policies for retired individuals and not about the bill about FDI in insurance.

One can say that karma has caught with Priti, but it doesn’t justify fabrication of facts by AAP supporters to prove a political point. It is no secret that both Congress and BJP are making U-turns on earlier issues and one doesn’t need to fudge data or misrepresent facts to prove it.

It is really unfortunate that every party is now using such tactics, making every one of them very unreliable. It is high time that top leadership of parties give clear instructions to their supporters and workers to practice “clean politics” in reality, not just in slogans.

Did news channels fabricate live data on election counting day to push up TRPs?

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Did news channels fabricate live data on election counting day to push up TRPs?

Viewers have often wondered why various news channels show different data for live election results on a counting day.

Earlier it was thought that this could be due to channels using different “sources” to gather data, but it seems that this could be a complete fraud.

ABP News vs Times Now
Are news channels resorting to committing scams just to get ahead and attract TRPs?

This issue was raided by Times Now’s Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami during the live coverage of counting results for Jharkhand and Jammu & Kashmir assembly elections.

Arnab claimed that other news channels were “fudging” data to show that they were ahead of Times Now and the fastest in bringing out news, and thus cheating the viewers.

He questioned how could other channels show trends for more seats than for which information was available from official sources e.g. the Election Commission website or reliable sources e.g. data analysis company like Nielsen.

This is the question common viewers have always asked and wondered, but this is the first time a mainstream popular journalist has posted it.

Arnab concluded that the news channels were projecting limited data on a wider number of seats to fool viewers into believing that they had “faster sources” and thus viewers should watch only Times Now. He called their data “manufactured”:


If the TV channels are really fabricating data and using statistical projections to show as if they have information on a larger number of assembly seats, it is very unethical. It can’t be justified by claiming some data analysis.

Live results are no opinion polls where a news channel can project data and based studio debates on those. It is playing with facts and real information. It is highly unscrupulous and amounts to misleading the common man.

TV news channels don’t fall under the purview of Press Council of India so most probably they will go unpunished. However, this fact needs to be highlighted and people should know how low media has fallen in their senseless and sensationalist chase of TRPs.

You know how bad it is when a sensationalist TRP seeking journalist like Arnab Goswami comes out to be the most principled one.

Calling PK anti-Hindu is stupid; Hindus don’t need to turn so touchy!

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Calling PK anti-Hindu is stupid; Hindus don’t need to turn so touchy!

Many people, especially on social media, have been calling to boycott the Bollywood movie PK, calling it “Anti-Hindu”.

PK the movie
No glory in fighting meaningless battles

These people argue that the movie mocks only Hindu religion and supports “Love Jihad”, thus it deserves to be boycotted.

While it is a democratic right of an Indian citizen to express his views or call for a boycott of a movie – after all call for a boycott is far better than call for beheadings just because you don’t agree with a worldview – Hindus need to choose their battles carefully.

Protesting against a Bollywood movie is the last thing one may do when the Hindu community is up against so many challenges – biggest of which is media narrative monopolized by people who are allergic to Hinduism.

One could argue that movies are also part of media and thus this protest is also a tool to fight that monopoly. That is a fair argument, but it doesn’t cut ice with PK.

Let us look at some facts related to this issue:

1. PK is NOT an anti-Hindu movie, but it is an anti-religion movie. Yes, most of the movie deals with Hindu themes, but it ALSO touches upon conversions by Christian missionaries and terrorism. The scene being argued to insult Lord Shiva is not insulting Shiva but it’s a funny physical comedy involving a character who worked in a drama company and was wearing Shiva costume at that time.

2. Muslim fundamentalists threaten to kill people for the insult of religion. This threat causes many artists to not touch Islamic themes. But it doesn’t mean that Hindus too start becoming like Muslim fundamentalists! There is nothing to learn from them. The Muslim fundamentalists have only weakened Islam and caused people like Tasleema Nasreen to feel disgusted and leave religion. Do Hindus want to follow the same path and push people out of religion?

3. Just because Aamir Khan is a Muslim, it doesn’t become logical to impute a motive for what he is doing. It makes one appear like a religious bigot. Furthermore, a movie depends on a Director’s worldview. PK is a Raju Hirani movie, not an Aamir Khan movie.

4. More than Hindu themes, PK mocks godmen and babas. By protesting against PK, we end up owning the godmen and babas and their deeds. Do we want Hinduism to be known through godmen and babas or through the spiritualism and philosophical knowledge Hinduism possesses? Why should we feel bad if a godman is being mocked? The most recent baba in news – Rampal – used to preach against worshipping Hindu gods. All godmen are not pro-Hindu!

5. The Love Jihad angle is an exaggeration. Yes, PK is guilty of political correctness and shows that a Pakistani Muslim man can love an Indian Hindu girl without religion being an impediment – as rare an event as an alien visiting earth. But that doesn’t mean Love Jihad is being summarily denied. We need to highlight more Love Jihad cases so that it becomes part of the mainstream discourse. Instead of outraging, Hindus should be learning the art and telling their own stories through movies and other works of art.

6. And finally, Hinduism doesn’t censor art or philosophy. We have Kamasutra as well as Brahamcharya. We have allowed atheistic and hedonistic philosophies to work under the parent Hindu fold. Just like OMG: Oh My God was also an anti-religion movie but was consistent with the Hindu philosophy, PK too can be interpreted to consistent with our faith and beliefs.

Therefore it’s a futile battle. The mind space and resources should be devoted to doing other constructive work. PK is no threat or insult to Hinduism.

By protesting against PK, Hindus are making themselves appear like those stupid Muslims who protest against everything.

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