Last week it was Swara Bhaskar and this week its Naseeruddin Shah getting trolled. Mangal must be heavy.
But the reason why he got trolled really needs discussion. So lets do it
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Naseeruddin Shah is a great actor and a great intellectual. Such an intellectual. that it seems Every year, he has been given a quota by the government to make one silly political statement
Every year he says something ,like, the country is not safe, or he signs Yakub Menon’s mercy petition or he says Love Jihad is fake
But in 2021, he actually made a good point
Liberals must be like, what has he said, he used to abuse India every year, this is such a surprise
Good for him, this is admirable and credit to him. But I do have a couple of issues with what he said
Firstly, he is sending really mixed messages to Indian Muslims and all of India
On the one hand, you have a problem with Muslims becoming extremists and supporting extremist ideologies.
On the other hand, this is the guy who signed the mercy petition for the terrorist Yakub Menon
On the other hand, you are scaremongering among Muslims that this country is not safe for them anymore
Despite evidence of religious targeting you had said that Love Jihad is being done to demonize Muslims?
Your crush will not give you the kind of mixed signals that Naseeruddin Chacha is giving to Indian Muslims.
is he being genuine or is this a multiple personality disorder? Is this like an Abhay deal, where there is good Naseeruddin and Bad Naseeruddin?
But good for him anyway, it takes a lot of courage to say this
Because what he said incurs personal risk to Naseeruddin Shah
in the left wing, music like Islam and Christianity, there is the orthodoxy
Orthodoxy decides what you are allowed to say and what everyone believes
What Shah said is the Heterodoxy, which is what is different and you are NOT allowed to say
India the kind of people that are considered intellectuals and are supported by other intellectuals have to say the orthodox opinions
Like Javed Akhtar who is being supported by the Left-wing orthodoxy because he says that Taliban = RSS
This is a Left Wing Orthodox opinion. He gets support, he has no personal risk
similarly Swara and Meena Kandasamy made the same comparison
I’m just surprised that no one has linked the NZ attack with the RSS yet
That RSS people made him say Ola hu Uber and gave him the knife.
What Naseeruddin Shah said was a heterodox opinion, and he got attacked from so-called liberal/reformist Muslims
Attacking taliban is also not allowed? First they say, Taliban is not Muslims, then they say criticizing Taliban is Islamophobic?
I am having the Same confusion ravish Kumar ji gets whenever he sees a Muslim man with a Bhagwa beard
I like the religion but hate the coliur. What to do?
Getting abused by normal Muslims, just for asking to condemn the Taliban
Even Arfa Khanum and Saba Naqvi are abusing him for asking for reform and condemning Taliban
What to say about them? When RSS gets abused
And when Taliban, a terrorist organization gets criticized:
And here comes my other issue with what Naseeruddin Shah said and why he is wrong. He said Indian Muslims and Indian Islam are different.
But he didn't say how
If something is different, it is that most Indian Muslims support Khaliafat(photo) movement, for something that was happening thousands of miles away, when most other Muslim countries had no interest in it
It was more important than the freedom struggle?
But other than that, I see similarities
because if they are so different, why are you getting attacked by Muslims, prominent Muslims for condemning the Taliban and asking for reform?
Why Did Most Indian Muslims vote for Pakistan?
Why did they take out protests for killing Salman Rushdie?
Why didn’t the Indian Muslims agitate for article 370 to be revoked and J&K Assimilated into India?
Why haven’t the Muslims asked that temples be freed like the mosques
Why are they against UCC implementation, why do they still want to be governed by Shariah law?
Many Western countries have Muslim reformists/Atheists, Where are the Indian ones?
The ones who call themselves reformists are big radicals themselves
Hamid Dalwai? Demonized. Arif Mohammad Khan? Demonized. APJ Abdul Kalam? Demonized.
this is the crux of the matter
You can’t just say Indian Islam is different because it's not. Islam is Islam. Naseeruddin ji, simply put, doesn’t agree with Islam’s commandments.
What he should have said is not that Indian Islam is different, what he should have said is that Indian Islam SHOULD be different
He should have said that he, along with modern reformist Muslims, reject the violent and discriminatory passages against Kafirs, women, homosexuals, in the holy book
and Indian Islam should exist without those passages
That’s what he should have said, but he can’t because either he is scared, or he knows that in Islam you either eject it all or you accept it all. There is no middle ground
That's the difference. As a Hindu I can reject discriminatory passages in manusmriti or some random purana, but I can still be a Hindu