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Forwarded message from S. Kalyanaraman
Salman Rushdie: Politicians in bed with extremists for electoral
gains
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 6:42 PM
http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.com/2012/01/salman-rushdie-politicians-in-bed-with.html
24.1.12
Salman Rushdie: Politicians in bed with extremists for electoral
gains
TNN
Jan 25, 2012, 01.02AM IST
Salman Rushdie, whose Jaipur Litfest video conference was cancelled
on Tuesday, expressed disappointment that politicians are in bed with
religious extremists groups and hence unwilling to oppose or stop
them.
Indraprasth aka New Delhi - Salman Rushdie, whose Jaipur Litfest
video conference was cancelled on Tuesday, expressed disappointment
that politicians are in bed with religious extremists groups and
hence unwilling to oppose or stop them.
"My overwhelming feeling is a disappointment on behalf of India,
which is a country that I have loved all my life and whose long-term
commitment to secularism and liberty is something I've praised for
much of my life. And now I find an India in which religious
extremists can prevent free expression of ideas at a literary
festival, in which the politicians are too, let's say, in bed with
those groups...for narrow electoral reasons, in which the police
forces are unable to secure venues against demonstrators even when
they know the demonstration is on its way," said the writer of
Midnight's Children and the controversial Satanic Verses in an
interview with NDTV.
Religious extremists were the real enemies of Islam, Rushdie said.
The writer said, "The real enemies of Islam are the leaders, the
Deobandis, the various extremist leaders and their followers, who
behave like this, because what they do is to strengthen the extremely
negative image of Islam as an intolerant, repressive, and violent
culture, as an ideology masquerading as a gentle faith, whereas
actually what happens every time it's crossed, or every time it
dislikes something, is that it resorts to threats and violence.
People like this, who behave like this, are the ones who feed that
image and they are the ones responsible for the negative views of
Islam in the world, and they should be called the enemies of the
faith."
Rushdie felt it was ironical that The Satanic Verses was banned in
India whereas it was available in 50 other countries, including
Turkey, Egyptand, now, Post-Gaddafi Libya. "We live in the
information age in which information moves freely. And no matter what
this gang of protesters tries to do, they will not prevent the
dissemination of my novel, which is published all over the world, I
think in more than 50 languages and, by the way, is legally
published, in my certain knowledge, in Turkey and Egypt, and
recently, after the fall of the Gaddafi regime, it was un-banned in
Libya. So you have several Muslim countries in which the novel is
freely able to be sold and read without any trouble. And yet, in
India; this was the first country in the world to ban the book and
after 23 and a half years that ban still survives. If Libya can do
this, Turkey can do this, Egypt can do this, does India want to be a
totalitarian state like China or does it want to move in the right
direction towards liberty and the open discussion of ideas?"
Rushdie added that the whole episode was a scandalous but it will not
stop him from coming to India. "I will come to India as many times as
I choose to.
Do what I will and I will not allow these religious gangsters and
their cronies in the government to prevent me...so deal with it."
He also said, "I thought the whole thing was fantastically fishy. I
think that from the moment, the way in which the Congress Party...the
way in which Congress officials, and many other party officials of
other parties, all stated their opposition to my coming, I felt quite
clear that some way would be found to prevent me from coming. And in
the end, sadly it was."
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Salman-Rushdie-Politicians-in-bed-with-extremists-for-electoral-gains/articleshow/11621208.cms
End of forwarded message from S. Kalyanaraman
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
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As everyone knows, a goon is a bully or thug who terrorizes or tries
to do away with opposition.
"Myself, Mallu. Yourself?" (V. Bhattathiri) <***@gmail.com>
tries his best to be a bully -- telling others what and when to post,
where to post and where not to post, deliberately publishing lies
about others, stalking and abusing them with hate speech -- but fails
miserably. He is really stressed out, and like his lap dog Prem
Thomas (who currently posts as "P. Rajah" <***@this.com>, and issues
*death threats* to people), is priming himself for conditions such as
stroke and heart disease. Others in the Goon Squad include
Dayashankar M. Joshi "DMJoshi" <***@gmail.com> who displays
unquestioning obedience to Goon Squad thugs, and the instigator who
posts as "Bholu" <***@hotmail.com>
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Salman Rushdie: Politicians in bed with extremists for electoral
gains
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 6:42 PM
http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.com/2012/01/salman-rushdie-politicians-in-bed-with.html
24.1.12
Salman Rushdie: Politicians in bed with extremists for electoral
gains
TNN
Jan 25, 2012, 01.02AM IST
Salman Rushdie, whose Jaipur Litfest video conference was cancelled
on Tuesday, expressed disappointment that politicians are in bed with
religious extremists groups and hence unwilling to oppose or stop
them.
Indraprasth aka New Delhi - Salman Rushdie, whose Jaipur Litfest
video conference was cancelled on Tuesday, expressed disappointment
that politicians are in bed with religious extremists groups and
hence unwilling to oppose or stop them.
"My overwhelming feeling is a disappointment on behalf of India,
which is a country that I have loved all my life and whose long-term
commitment to secularism and liberty is something I've praised for
much of my life. And now I find an India in which religious
extremists can prevent free expression of ideas at a literary
festival, in which the politicians are too, let's say, in bed with
those groups...for narrow electoral reasons, in which the police
forces are unable to secure venues against demonstrators even when
they know the demonstration is on its way," said the writer of
Midnight's Children and the controversial Satanic Verses in an
interview with NDTV.
Religious extremists were the real enemies of Islam, Rushdie said.
The writer said, "The real enemies of Islam are the leaders, the
Deobandis, the various extremist leaders and their followers, who
behave like this, because what they do is to strengthen the extremely
negative image of Islam as an intolerant, repressive, and violent
culture, as an ideology masquerading as a gentle faith, whereas
actually what happens every time it's crossed, or every time it
dislikes something, is that it resorts to threats and violence.
People like this, who behave like this, are the ones who feed that
image and they are the ones responsible for the negative views of
Islam in the world, and they should be called the enemies of the
faith."
Rushdie felt it was ironical that The Satanic Verses was banned in
India whereas it was available in 50 other countries, including
Turkey, Egyptand, now, Post-Gaddafi Libya. "We live in the
information age in which information moves freely. And no matter what
this gang of protesters tries to do, they will not prevent the
dissemination of my novel, which is published all over the world, I
think in more than 50 languages and, by the way, is legally
published, in my certain knowledge, in Turkey and Egypt, and
recently, after the fall of the Gaddafi regime, it was un-banned in
Libya. So you have several Muslim countries in which the novel is
freely able to be sold and read without any trouble. And yet, in
India; this was the first country in the world to ban the book and
after 23 and a half years that ban still survives. If Libya can do
this, Turkey can do this, Egypt can do this, does India want to be a
totalitarian state like China or does it want to move in the right
direction towards liberty and the open discussion of ideas?"
Rushdie added that the whole episode was a scandalous but it will not
stop him from coming to India. "I will come to India as many times as
I choose to.
Do what I will and I will not allow these religious gangsters and
their cronies in the government to prevent me...so deal with it."
He also said, "I thought the whole thing was fantastically fishy. I
think that from the moment, the way in which the Congress Party...the
way in which Congress officials, and many other party officials of
other parties, all stated their opposition to my coming, I felt quite
clear that some way would be found to prevent me from coming. And in
the end, sadly it was."
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Salman-Rushdie-Politicians-in-bed-with-extremists-for-electoral-gains/articleshow/11621208.cms
End of forwarded message from S. Kalyanaraman
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
-----
About the terrorist Goon Squad:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
As everyone knows, a goon is a bully or thug who terrorizes or tries
to do away with opposition.
"Myself, Mallu. Yourself?" (V. Bhattathiri) <***@gmail.com>
tries his best to be a bully -- telling others what and when to post,
where to post and where not to post, deliberately publishing lies
about others, stalking and abusing them with hate speech -- but fails
miserably. He is really stressed out, and like his lap dog Prem
Thomas (who currently posts as "P. Rajah" <***@this.com>, and issues
*death threats* to people), is priming himself for conditions such as
stroke and heart disease. Others in the Goon Squad include
Dayashankar M. Joshi "DMJoshi" <***@gmail.com> who displays
unquestioning obedience to Goon Squad thugs, and the instigator who
posts as "Bholu" <***@hotmail.com>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
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purposes of research and open discussion. The contents of this post may not
have been authored by, and do not necessarily represent the opinion of the
poster. The contents are protected by copyright law and the exemption for
fair use of copyrighted works.
o If you send private e-mail to me, it will likely not be read,
considered or answered if it does not contain your full legal name, current
e-mail and postal addresses, and live-voice telephone number.
o Posted for information and discussion. Views expressed by others are
not necessarily those of the poster who may or may not have read the article.
FAIR USE NOTICE: This article may contain copyrighted material the use of
which may or may not have been specifically authorized by the copyright
owner. This material is being made available in efforts to advance the
understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic,
democratic, scientific, social, and cultural, etc., issues. It is believed
that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as
provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title
17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without
profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included
information for research, comment, discussion and educational purposes by
subscribing to USENET newsgroups or visiting web sites. For more information
go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
If you wish to use copyrighted material from this article for purposes of
your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the
copyright owner.
Since newsgroup posts are being removed
by forgery by one or more net terrorists,
this post may be reposted several times.