right, you still fail to realise my point, you call yourself a secular state and still a muslim was forced to exile
now about the fatwa part, sulaiman rushdie fatwa if it was applicable would have been killed but he still lives today, and still he vomits about islam and muslims, he is an islam basher and hater where as MF hussain was purely artist, he had no agenda to defame hindu religion, and still he was made to suffer an exile and secular india couldnt guarentee his security and exiled him, if he had stayed in india he would have been killed i can guarentee you that
lots of indians would say he was exiled for his own security, he was unsafe in india
You mean secular states cant exile muslims, but can only exile only hindus or Christians?
Just answer my question. If somebody did what MF Hussein did WRT Islam's sacred objects, what would be muslims reaction? Can anyone draw naked images of Muhammad and expect to survive in Pakistan?
No, he should not have been exiled, but I say that because India expects much higher standards of religious tolerance than the muslim world, including Pakistan. If he did that to muslims, in a muslim country, then exile would have been the best thing to happen to him. In Pakistan, 14 year olds are given the death penalty for apparent insults to the religion. And in India, we debate whether somebody who painted hindu goddesses naked should be allowed to continue doing that in India. (And I side with the people who affirm that yes, he should have the freedom to do that.) But please don't insult your own intelligence by pretending that your country has anywhere near that level of tolerance for artists or anybody else.
About salman rushdie. Obviously you haven't read his books. In non muslim countries, people make fun of their religions to a much greater extent than salman rushdie ever did. Nobody gets killed for that. Please check out movies by monty python which completely ridicules Christ and Christianity (Life of Brian). The monty python group is regarded as Britain's greatest heroes, and that film is considered one of the best british films ever. Nobody has said anything about killing them.
All over the world, people have evolved into the idea that religions are not above criticism or ridicule. Muslims are the only people who have not realized that yet. You yourself have just proved it, by saying that salman rushdie is an "islam basher" - as if that justifies death threats and fatwas. Christians produce lampoons of Christianity far worse than salman rushdie has ever done about islam, and they do it everyday, whether in comedy shows or youtube. Check out what comedians like George carlin or bill maher have said on stage about Christianity. None of them walk in fear of their lives.
It is only the muslim world where the "spell has not been broken". The medieval idea that anyone making fun of a religion should be killed or persecuted. The rest of the world realized its stupidity long ago, and is all the better for it.
