<!--QuoteBegin-ramana+Jun 2 2007, 12:52 AM-->QUOTE(ramana @ Jun 2 2007, 12:52 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Art for God's sake
Chandan Mitra, Editor
Is there a way in which this conspiracy to blaspheme the Hindu faith can be countered? <b>I believe there is a pressing need to enact a stern law against blasphemy in India that penalises all efforts to disparage religion and religious icons, irrespective of faith. Nobody, not even the tallest intellectual or celebrated artist, has the right to purposely hurt anybody's religious sentiment by exhibiting nude or copulating gods.</b> None stops them from painting voluptuous women or male hunks in various disagreeable forms and enough models are available to serve their purpose. But, for God's sake, don't use our gods to satiate your intellectual perversions.
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]69657[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Checkmate. Good move by the loonies like Chandramohan ('charredmoon' hereafter), they've now got sensible people like Chandan Mitra cornered into suggesting anti-blasphemy laws.
But there's no need yet to imitate christoislamism and start voicing ideas on limitations to freedom of expression by introducing 'blasphemy laws'. We're not living in the dark christian ages or in sharia. Not yet, at any rate.
Next to that, such laws will only be to the advantage of salamis and christos who have always been free to abuse (and have indeed abused) our symbols; but now their own iconography will lawfully be safe from any counter-insults. For another, it's exactly what the international and local English language media is hoping for: proof that the 'evil Hindoo fundamentalists' are inhibiting freedom of speech/criticism of Hindoooooootvaaaaa.
The solution to this particular Charredmoon case is to send him and just his offensive depiction of an alleged 'jeebus' off to tour the US - the bible belt in particular. Let's see how hot he is over there. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> No bodyguards necessary, mind. There won't be many 'Hindoo fundamentalists' there, so it's unnecessary. Of course the open-minded American christos will take good care of him.
MFH and this dweeb and others keep depicting what they claim are 'Hindu Godesses'. They can say all they like, but it's clear there's only Ayesha/Khadija/other wives of mohammed and charredmoon's girlfriend to be seen in their images ...
Just a thought. A visitor to the Mumbai police department should make matters clear to the general public by subtitling MFH's paintings of nude women with the title: 'Ayesha' and 'Khadija'. Not everyone of the common populace is an art connaisseur after all, some of us need to have images clearly titled to know what MFH is trying to depict. Of course, MFH being a salami (one can easily be communist and salami, just like there are many christos who are communists in India and elsewhere - the ideologies are not mutually exclusive!), his religion would never have allowed him to paint Hindu deities. It's obvious then to any onlooker to figure out who he had in mind when he made his drawings: his subconscious wanted a way to express the esteemed islamic women without getting in the way of the fatwa machine. Hindus ought to help him out of his self-censorship by labelling his paintings with the appropriate character names as he had himself intended, because he is clearly too afraid to come out with the truth himself.
Personally, I think it's rather distasteful to thus depict khadija and ayesha ... but what can I say when a salami himself wants to draw them in such a fashion? Must not stand in the way of islami mental progress. So more power to him then, as long as we can label his works correctly when they're done.
Chandan Mitra, Editor
Is there a way in which this conspiracy to blaspheme the Hindu faith can be countered? <b>I believe there is a pressing need to enact a stern law against blasphemy in India that penalises all efforts to disparage religion and religious icons, irrespective of faith. Nobody, not even the tallest intellectual or celebrated artist, has the right to purposely hurt anybody's religious sentiment by exhibiting nude or copulating gods.</b> None stops them from painting voluptuous women or male hunks in various disagreeable forms and enough models are available to serve their purpose. But, for God's sake, don't use our gods to satiate your intellectual perversions.
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]69657[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Checkmate. Good move by the loonies like Chandramohan ('charredmoon' hereafter), they've now got sensible people like Chandan Mitra cornered into suggesting anti-blasphemy laws.
But there's no need yet to imitate christoislamism and start voicing ideas on limitations to freedom of expression by introducing 'blasphemy laws'. We're not living in the dark christian ages or in sharia. Not yet, at any rate.
Next to that, such laws will only be to the advantage of salamis and christos who have always been free to abuse (and have indeed abused) our symbols; but now their own iconography will lawfully be safe from any counter-insults. For another, it's exactly what the international and local English language media is hoping for: proof that the 'evil Hindoo fundamentalists' are inhibiting freedom of speech/criticism of Hindoooooootvaaaaa.
The solution to this particular Charredmoon case is to send him and just his offensive depiction of an alleged 'jeebus' off to tour the US - the bible belt in particular. Let's see how hot he is over there. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> No bodyguards necessary, mind. There won't be many 'Hindoo fundamentalists' there, so it's unnecessary. Of course the open-minded American christos will take good care of him.MFH and this dweeb and others keep depicting what they claim are 'Hindu Godesses'. They can say all they like, but it's clear there's only Ayesha/Khadija/other wives of mohammed and charredmoon's girlfriend to be seen in their images ...
Just a thought. A visitor to the Mumbai police department should make matters clear to the general public by subtitling MFH's paintings of nude women with the title: 'Ayesha' and 'Khadija'. Not everyone of the common populace is an art connaisseur after all, some of us need to have images clearly titled to know what MFH is trying to depict. Of course, MFH being a salami (one can easily be communist and salami, just like there are many christos who are communists in India and elsewhere - the ideologies are not mutually exclusive!), his religion would never have allowed him to paint Hindu deities. It's obvious then to any onlooker to figure out who he had in mind when he made his drawings: his subconscious wanted a way to express the esteemed islamic women without getting in the way of the fatwa machine. Hindus ought to help him out of his self-censorship by labelling his paintings with the appropriate character names as he had himself intended, because he is clearly too afraid to come out with the truth himself.
Personally, I think it's rather distasteful to thus depict khadija and ayesha ... but what can I say when a salami himself wants to draw them in such a fashion? Must not stand in the way of islami mental progress. So more power to him then, as long as we can label his works correctly when they're done.