Lecture on Arafat cancelled by Tarek Fateh in India

[sanddy]

'There is a mini-Pakistan growing in Delhi': Author Tarek Fateh speaks out after his lecture on Arafat is cancelled | Mail Online

Yasser Arafat died years ago but his name can still generate controversy, as Canadian author and broadcaster of Pakistani origin Tarek Fatah found out in New Delhi on Thursday.

A talk at Jamia Millia Islamia's Yasser Arafat Hall featuring Fatah was cancelled on Thursday after, according to the writer, "Muslim radicals" objected to his plan to speak about why a hall is named after the late Palestinian leader but not for a syncretist like Dara Shikoh.

"Some of these guys, who had researched me, planned to drop by this event and do something. So the vice-chancellor, out of a gesture of goodwill, decided that I should not be subjected to this," Fatah told Mail Today. The university later sent out a release that the interactive session with Fatah had been cancelled due to "unavoidable reasons".

"I would have loved to take on these twits. I'm not allowed to speak in Pakistan and the sad thing is there is a mini-Pakistan growing in Delhi itself, at Jamia," Fatah said.

"It's not a war of religions, but a war of ideas. The only people who can destroy Islamofascism are Indian Muslims. Only in India can they get up and say we live in a secular country. Yet it doesn't happen."

Fatah is no stranger to controversy, primarily because of his strident anti-Islamism and his
calls for a new form of secular Islam - through his books Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State and The Jew Is Not My Enemy as well as his broadcast work.

Fatah said a strain of racism is spreading through India's Hindu communities, particularly in its rejection of Bangladeshi immigrants.

"This country was formed on 5,000 years of.illegal immigration, whether it is Muslims or Parsis," he said.

"And today, Maharashtrians are expelling Biharis. Is that what the Vedas say? If you're a Hindu, you should live up to that high level of spiritual depth that is the envy of this world."

 

[Kompromat]

In other words,people all across the shop are realizing that this clown is a lunatic.

 

[Contrarian]

Why is he a lunatic?

 

[RajputWarrior]

Why is he a lunatic?

He's another Salman Rushdie, therefore it was cancelled to please the Muslims.

 

[apolitical]

Is it just me or are Indian Muslims getting a little too g-hadi these days? The riots/demonstrations in Mumbai for their Myanmar "brothers" is one that comes to mind that was not too long ago. We need to encourage free-thinkers like Slaman Rushdie/Tarek Fateh, and throw the ghadi scums like the ones protesting in Delhi to Talibanstan...

 

[apolitical]

He's another Salman Rushdie, therefore it was cancelled to please the Muslims.

Correction, it wasnt cancelled to "please" the Muslims.

It was cancelled because the Indian Govt was scared that there might be a bomb blast or some act of terrorism from Muslims which they are famously known for. Remember riots in Mumbai over some stupid Myanmar Muslims that happened not too long ago? Muslims in India dont care about India, they care about Muslims, thats the bottom line no matter how much you or me or the Secular Indian Govt tries to hide it...

 

[r3alist]

"This country was formed on 5,000 years of.illegal immigration, whether it is Muslims or Parsis," he said.Source:*http://www.defence.pk/forums/centra...ancelled-tarek-fateh-india.html#ixzz2QL4h1rai

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This is a nonsense statement.

 

[RajputWarrior]

Correction, it wasnt cancelled to "please" the Muslims.

It was cancelled because the Indian Govt was scared that there might be a bomb blast or some act of terrorism from Muslims which they are famously known for. Remember riots in Mumbai over some stupid Myanmar Muslims that happened not too long ago? Muslims in India dont care about India, they care about Muslims, thats the bottom line no matter how much you or me or the Secular Indian Govt tries to hide it...

That's pretty much the same thing...

 

[apolitical]

This is a nonsense statement.

Thats true, only illegal immigrants are Muslims. Parsis were welcomed here when they got kicked out unfairly by Muslims in their homelands of Persia, no one asked Muslims to leave their Arabian deserts and come here.

 

[airmarshal]

I have told this forum before. He is a complete idiot and a very cheap copy of lunatic Salman Rushdie.

Read his intro on twitter account. I m not bothering to look for him and then copy and paste here. thats a lot of effort to make a point against this idiot.

 

[sanddy]

On his Twitter Account he writes :
An Indian born in Pakistan; a Punjabi born in
Islam, of Hindu ancestry & Sikh heritage. A
'Sarmachar' grounded in a Marxist youth, I'm above all a Canadian.

http://twitter.com/TarekFatah

Any Person who don't believes in Two Nations Theory Automatically become an lunatic in views of the Pakistanis.

Waiting for his upcoming book ..........

 

[LURKER]

 

[OrionHunter]

Is it just me or are Indian Muslims getting a little too g-hadi these days? The riots/demonstrations in Mumbai for their Myanmar "brothers" is one that comes to mind that was not too long ago. We need to encourage free-thinkers like Slaman Rushdie/Tarek Fateh, and throw the ghadi scums like the ones protesting in Delhi to Talibanstan...

That will never happen due to vote bank politics! The Congress doesn't have the balls to touch a single Muslim extremist! Why, they don't even have the balls to sort out the RSS and Bajrang Dal goons. Damn! What a lame duck dispensation we have. Did we accumulate so much bad karma in our last birth to have been saddled with this crap? Jeeez!

 

[takeiteasy]

most probably tarek fateh may be a ex-muslim. murtad are considered worst enemy of islam and muslims because, they expose many things.

 

[sanddy]

Tarek Fatah invited to JNU for lecture - Hindustan Times

Days after Canadian writer and broadcaster Tarek Fatah's lecture at Jamia Millia Islamia
was cancelled without explanation, the anti Islamist activist has been approached by
students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) to present a lecture on their campus. According to Tarek, he was not provided any concrete reasons for the cancellation of his lecture at Jamia.

"I was given no official reason but what I hear is that some university students had hinted that they did not want to hear my lecture and had threatened to create problems. The vice chancellor did not, it seems, want problems on the campus because of me and decided to call off the lecture. I had staunchly opposed the inclusion of Sharia law in Canadian family law and have been a critic. I suppose people might
have taken an exception to this stand," Fatah
said.

The writer has now been invited to talk at the
School of South Asian Studies of JNU.
"The students have approached me and I would like to go there towards the end of this month, after my trip to Dhaka. Discussion and discourse are very important. Otherwise a nation becomes dictatorial. It is unfortunate that I was stopped from speaking in a democratic country like India," he added.

Fatah's lecture was cancelled on Thursday morning. A notice was posted informing of
the cancellation was put up on the university
website and notice boards. The vice chancellor at Jamia Millia Islamia could not be contacted for a comment.

The Jamia administration has been accused
of becoming more and more wary of criticism
or controversies.It has imposed fines on students protesting against fee hikes in hostels. Student union elections, too, have been on hold for the past seven years. In February, teachers and organizers of a theatre fest had stopped a play by DU students over the use of abusive language.