Who are you to take care of God ? My apologies. I never knew when someone was appointed as God’s protector. Does not your caretaker of God attitude surmise to blasphemy? Humor is a human right. Killing innocent children in their classrooms and journalists at their workplace is blasphemy and not the cartoons.
All religions are against bloodshed and if you commit bloody massacre in the name of religion then either there is something wrong with your religion or you are not worthy enough to be followers of that religion.
Here is the statement issued by the Taliban spokesperson Muhammad Khorasmi after the Peshawar school massacre.“We had issued instructions not to harm small children.” How I wish this sentence had ended with a full stop after harm. No matter how old one gets you are always your mother’s small child. To understand this you don’t have to be a mother; you just have to have a heart.
To err is human. To forgive is human, but to justify is hell.
No goddamn explanations can absolve these cowardly barbaric acts.
A deliberate attempt to whitewash terror by referring to “western foreign policies,” “Gauntanamo,” “Afghanistan,” and “Iraq” is just an attempt to be elitist. This is a great offence to humanity. Justifying crime is not a corrective way. This appeasement equals the crime itself. You want to stop terrorism then STOP appeasing. Appeasing is a form of conspicuous bribery. An open dialogue is ambiguously missing because of sheer fear.
The movie PK stayed away from mocking certain religions. It is crystal clear the reason is no special regard for Islam, Christianity or Sikhism but because you want to avoid the terror. Even an alien is cautious enough to be “poligiously” correct.
Do you want to make this world a peaceful place? Then, start it at your home. Beware that your children are watching you when you say “All is well “with PK but fume at the slightest humorous depiction of your religion. How can you term this entertainment and that offence? Isn’t it as silly as a parent saying “spare the rod and spoil the child“ when someone else’s child is caned by a teacher and on the other hand run to the police station and file an FIR when the same method is used to discipline your child.
India is my country and I am not in need of any kind of minority appeasement here. “Vasudaiva Kudumbakam” (the world is one family) is my country’s philosophy and I don’t need to be appeased in any other part of the world.
Author: Delony Manuvel