Every day, we hear news about some group or the other led by people who claim to be the protectors of our cultures and religions, accusing someone or some group of people of ‘hurting our religious sentiments’ or ‘insulting our culture or country’.
Then these so called moral police, in the pretext of protecting our “culture and religion” usually go about vandalizing public and private property, courting arrest, and generally display obnoxious, fascist behavior.
An artist depicted a goddess in the nude? So strip the gallery, vandalize some offices, and burn some private cars for good measure. And if possible, appear abusively on some news channel.
An actor speaks about the need for safe sex among the youth?So burn her effigies, boycott her movies, file a PIL in court, and of course, do the mandatory vandalising of public and private property.
Question 1: Are our centuries old religions and cultures so fragile and weak?
Are the religion and cultures which are part of the fabric of millions of people, so vulnerable that they get destroyed by these stray incidents?
Are we as a society so weak and stupid, that we will change our beliefs because of some painting or one off utterance?
Wake up you so called Moral Police! You, yourself are undermining the stature and power of the religions and culture you claim to protect by raising insignificant things as serious threats!
Question 2: What’s more vulgar here? What’s more insulting to our culture? What demeans our society more?
Is some misunderstood or misrepresented act of an individual or small group of people restricted to a small section of society worse than a vicious, planned act of social violence and abuse, by a mob that disrupts life for a larger part of society?
Hello! You’ve got to be insane to side with the mobs and so called moral police. I’m certainly not on their side.
My belief? If they cannot ‘protect our culture and country’ in the true spirit of the culture and country, which is peacefully and with decency – then they should be arrested and flogged in public. That would be justice…? Or would it?
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