Friday, May 4, 2007

"INSULTING ISLAM" is still a reason for arresting people.

Who is insulting Islam when they arrest people for insulting Islam?

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"INSULTING ISLAM" JUSTIFIES ALL YET AGAIN

Never has the name of this blog, Deja Vu, seem more relevant than while reading about the September 11, 1924 Kohat riots in India in Mohandas. The New York Times reported that 15 Hindus and Sikhs were killed and 24 wounded by rioting Muslims. The reason - a poem derogatory to Muhammad. The intercommunal violence let to Gandhi's first fast. No one worked harder for Muslim-Hindu cooperation than Gandhi. Uniting the Indians against the British was his primary goal. But even Gandhi could not overcome the basic Muslim/non Muslim divide.

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