Re: Pakistan's reaction on Rushdie knighthood (merged)
Well I asked a simple question, has anyone of us read "satanic verses". I couldn't, becuase book is still banned in India.
may be you can read online.
rahi baat cursing kee....I have read reviews by journalists in Indian newspapers few years back, and best I can remember through those reviews is it's more humor and critical in typical bollywood style, it includes other Indian religions apart from Islam....so banning a book may be justified considering the public sentiments...but issuing Fatwas for his death is another example of intolerance shown by "touchy" Islamists who have never read or understood the "art of language".
Yes, I agree with you, but if you listen or read Ahmed Deedat, a great muslim Scholar of comparitive religions from India, you will come to know that Ahmad Deedat is against these fatwas.
And rahi baat art ki to Pornography is also Art. But we don't allow it, do we? I think India as a secular country has done the great job by banning this book, full of swearing and offending language. I think India has prefered Values over Art.
Criticizing or Satiring/caricaturing religion may be a "death penalty" crime in Islam, but how it can be so rigidly employed in a secular country like India, Salaman Rushdie case was the best example of pseudo-seularism.
Btw....Da-Vinci Code can be termed as offensive by many Evangelical Jihadis, still the novel and movie was not banned in any Christian country.
As I said before that knowledgeable muslim Scholars are against the death fatwa.
No, it wasn't banned in any christian country bcoz christians themselves make fun of their God, if you watch their TV programmes. And to be honest I don't know anything about da vinci code.:)