I am quiet amzed when i read articles covering news like authorities in India saw Da Vinci code themselves along with religious heads to confirm if it can be released in India...
Today I read newz stating that 'Pak likely to officially ban 'The Da Vinci Code'...following is an excerpt from the report:
"We condemn it and demand of the Pakistan government to ban its screening," said Julius Salik, a leading Christian leader and former minister in the cabinet of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
He also criticised Western countries and the US for "allowing people to insult religious sentiments" of all faiths, referring to the publication of blasphemous sketches of the Holy Prophet Mohammed by the Western media."
Now i had mixed feelings when i read this...
firstly, i was shocked...what possible harm can a piece of fiction can do on religious feelings.
secondly, i was wondering, how can a handful of ppl b so sure that it is gonna hurt religious sentiments of ppl in pakistan!!
thirdly, i was thinking are people in west 'less' christian than christians in Pakistan. Do western ppl tk fun in rediculing their own religion. Or may b that a person born in south asian lands, belonging to any religion(muslim, christian or hindu) is more devoted to his/her religion...strange!!
lastly, i was appreciating pakistani politicians for bringing the context of Prophet in the whole senario...heights of diverting thngs and drawing conclusions. Why do they think in the first place that their religion s so prone to insult...anything and everything insults religion...i firmly believe that if ur faith in sumthing is strong nothing can move u...now i dont want to conclude anything...
Then I literally brushed away all these thoughts...thinking thoughts like these have to come from countries like pakistan n others, after all what do they knw, how wud they hv the faintest idea that there exists a thing called..."Freedom of expression..."
7 comments:
paKISTAN too!!! i never thought theyd care about any other religion in the first place!!
god! this hypocrisy.. this useless drama.. it's so absurd!
This is downright ridiculous. I guess people jus need some reason or other to protest. If they believe in their religion so much no matter what anybody says it shouldn affect or insult them.
@Neha - actually fanaticism s a social disease which is like a epidemic in Pakistan...
@catch22 - i agree. I think ppl hv forgot that religion s a very very personal issue..the belief i hv on same God wud definitely vary from urs...n i shud respect tht!! where is the religious tolerance?
@nishu - Pakistan too...th movie has been banned there. World is intolerable !!
nothing much..we are just like that..;) always hav some or the other bone to fight for...:)
@dewaker - i knw and we call it democracy...!!
Social satire...thinking beyond the obvious...appreciating creativity...all r terms that cause frowns...
I mean how can a fiction hurt feelings..
where were these ppl when the book was released...this means these politicians r nt concerned abt th feeling of ppl who can read...or is it tough to make these ppl as vote banks...leaves me wondering
guess picture speaks more than a thousand words is what is apt here when u ask abou the politicos whereabouts when the book was released...
thinking aloud..im sure half of the people would not have understood the movie and just have followed the crowd..
we are like this only !!:)
pakistan hai!!hai!!
di pakistaniyon ki to mat hi mari gayi hai..!!!
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