I don’t want M.F Hussain Back
Written by Dilip Muralidaran on March 18, 2010 – 6:34 pm -I’m tired of explaining things on twitter and chat so i decided i will write a blog post to consolidate my thoughts and present it in an orderly and clear manner without any confusion.
Preface:
M.F.Hussain the great artist whom many people are brooding over, his loss of Indian citizenship and want him back, is my subject for discussion. People are pissed off that the Hindu religious right over reacted and made him decide to give up his Indian citizenship for a Qatar one. People demand that India should extend an offer to bring him back and offer an apology as well. People claim that
“Art” and “Freedom of Expression” is above everything and no one has the right to not get offended. Artists should have no boundaries or restrictions and that they should be beyond offense & hurt.
Foreword:
I have no religious beliefs. I’m an outspoken atheist, no not the Karunanidhi kinds who love to blaspheme forward caste Hindu gods. I blaspheme all gods. I don’t care who gets offended and who does not. To me all god is blasphemy material and i will blaspheme things to death. I do not care who blasphemes what god and who gets offended. Blasphemy is a victimless crime. I do not support someone not to be offended at all.
Main Summary:
My Objective of this article is to strike a logical balance. We all know that India has blasphemy laws. Even though it sounds like stone age, yes in this country one cannot offend religious sentiments of another and get away with it. While i do not support this law i have to live with it for the time being until it is thrown to the dustbin like how criminalizing gays was trashed recently. It is in this context my argument is going to be. I’m all in support of freedom of expression. It should be applicable to all. Freedom of expression is not Selective. It is applicable to one and all. Just like how i love to call Mohammed a Pedophile, someone else should also have the freedom of expression to call Lord Shiva a murderous bastard. I cannot cry foul when someone else insults Shiva whilst i insult Prophet Mohammed or Vice Versa.
The Material:
I would like to show some of the images that MF Hussain drew that erected violence and criticism across the nation.
A fully dressed Muslim king and a naked Hindu Brahmin. While the Muslim king is shown in a dignified manner the Brahmin is butt naked. Brahmins are respected across India for their religious significance in the Hindu Dharma. Insulting a Brahmin Priest is equivalent to insulting a Imam or a Bishop.
Lord Hanuman and Goddess Sita both shown naked. Additionally the naked Sita sits on Ravanan’s lap. Sita is a symbol of chastity and divinity according to Hindu’s. So much that mythology states that she could not be burnt by the flames when her husband Rama asked her to take the test. To depict Sita sitting butt naked on a naked Ravanan’s lap is nothing short of insult.
Draupadi shown naked. Whilst one can dismiss this is as not so bad it still could offend people nevertheless.
Goddess Parvati depicted naked. Additionally i see her carrying or touching a naked vinayaka (her son) as well. What does this mean. She is aroused by her own son?
Goddess Saraswati depicted naked.
Goddess Lakshmi painted naked on Lord Ganesh’s head. Again compromising positions of gods and goddesses that may provoke anger.
Goddess Durga shown in an union with a Tiger. Notice how the anal sections of the human woman and the tiger collide in the drawing suggesting a copulation.
Here are some images the same person(artist) drew, in this case they are either Muslims or Christians…
Muslim poets Ghalib and Faiz shown properly and fully attired in a nice way
A fully clothed Muslim lady. Simple and elegant drawing. I don’t see how this lady could be a Muslim, maybe she does not have a bindi, thats why?
A painting of MF Hussain’s mother - properly and fully clothed.
Mother Teresa shown fully clothed.
Hussain’s daughter painted fully and properly clothed.
A properly and fully-clothed Fatima, the Prophet’s daughter (from one the innumerable number of women he raped/impregnated or forcibly married).
My Conclusion:
It is distinctly evident from MF Husain’s work that he likes to play spoil sport with Hindu items and he treats his own Muslim brethren and Christians with respect. When i say Hindu i refer to the followers of the religion called “Hinduism” that it is known today. It is evident that if MFH paints a picture of prophet Mohammed he would not have his hands to wash his rectal cavity after taking a dump, the next time around. The same can be said if he paints a picture of Mother Teresa in a bikini or say naked.
1. I’m happy that he has the balls to blaspheme against Hindu Gods. I don’t care, god does not exist and insulting a non existing entity is not a criminal offence in my opinion. Like i said earlier, blasphemy is a victimless crime.
2. Applying the same logic Christian & Muslims gods don’t exist as well. Hence offending their gods should not be a big ass problem as well. Unfortunately no, in this country secularism means bashing the majority to appease the minority. We all know what Taslima’s Burkha article did and how many lives were lost because someone wrote something about a piece of clothing & commented on a religious text from their personal opinion.
3. Just as Muslims & Christians have the constitutional right to feel offended (ironically) so do Hindu’s have the right to feel offended if someone depicts a mother god and her son god to be copulating or performing sexual deeds to each other.
4. To bring back M.F. Hussain or to apologize to him would be hypocrisy. If M.F. Hussain deems an apology and needs to be brought back to India and given safe custody and citizenship then i demand Salman Rushdie to be awarded $100 million dollars and an apology for his work being banned. I also propose that we compensate Dan Brown and Sony Pictures with a $500 Million cheque and apology and we will screen “The Da Vinci Code” all over again in all theaters and govt. offices and public places across India.
5. It is pretty obvious neither will we allow “Satanic Verses” nor do we tolerate The “Da Vinci Code” movie. Both of them are an item that indicate “Freedom of Expression” and “Artistic Expression” as well just like MF Hussain’s paintings do.
6. If we cannot tolerate one, then the other cannot be tolerated as well.
7. It is hypocrisy and unfair to say that someone can offend Hindu’s and not face the consequences but Muslims or Christians should NEVER be offended at no cost even if they outrightly offend the Hindu’s.
I don’t care for Muslims or Christians or Hindu’s. I do however care when one of them is being subject to insult to appease the other or question one of them while they insult the other will generate violence and commotion. Everyone is equal in the eyes of the law, even if that law is stupid to claim one cannot be offended at all (on religious grounds) like how it is in India.
M.F Hussain is no holier than Dan Brown or Salman Rushdie. Nor is he exclusive from the Danish Newspaper who were brought to their knees for publishing a silly fucking cartoon. For all i care, M.F Hussain can go to hell. I care less. Let him practice his “Freedom of Expression” by painting Mohammed in Qatar, if he has the balls to. If only he can play around with Islamic or Christian figures like he does with Hindu figures and then demands that people should not feel offended, i would consider him to be a true secularist and would voice my support to bring him back. Until then, let him scramble in the desert and drink crude oil for time pass. He is a mere perverted Muslim prick who wants to offend Hindu’s and take cover under the blanket of “Art” & “Freedom of Expression” and play politics with our skewed idea of secularism which applies only to Muslims & Christians while Hindu’s can be offended and abused without any question.
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Jesus is now a Brahman?
Written by Dilip Muralidaran on January 1, 2008 – 11:16 pm -
I recently came across this webpage that was created for purposes of evangelization. Quite a nice presentation on how great the god of Christ is and how his love will save the world. In technical terms this webpage is a fantastic collection of not so very accurate but a very complete collection of Hindu Gods and Goddesses. I cannot deny the fact that they have taken the efforts to put together this long list of gods. Born in a Hindu family it’s quite difficult a task frankly and they have done a good job. However the funniest thing is that they have explained the Hindu Gods in such great precise detail it looks like a documentation of Hindu Deities. Nevertheless there are some cheap statements the website pulls of which i would like to address here. After explaining in detail the concept of everything being a divine being in Hinduism unlike the monolithic Christian religion which sings the praise of a Christ they feel it is their responsibility to take a dig at Hinduism by saying things like “these gods are not God, they can not make stars, nor roses, nor human hearts...” I’m actually impressed. So does that mean that Jesus Christ could make stars, Grow Roses and also fix human hearts? It looks like i can fire all the astronomers in NASA since Jesus can take care of the stars and celestial bodies. I could fire my gardener since Jesus can grow roses. I could also nuke all the Heart Surgeons in town and be done with it because Jesus could not fix hearts too. However the humble reality is that you would end up paying the price of gold for a rose, have no clue about what’s around the planet and which asteroid heads our way or have all of our senior citizens with heart ailments bite the dust. Then the text goes on to describe Vishnu as… Vishnu, is the savior and protector of mankind, he incarnates, like Jesus, but 10 times!… the last one, as “Kalkin”, is still to come. He is very popular, and shown as one of his 9 incarnations (”avatars”), as fish, tortoise, a boar… the last 3 were Rama, Krishna, and Buddha, who are very popular, most specially Krishna for Hinduism… I have some problems with this statement. The number of times Vishnu reincarnates is not a specific number in Hinduism. Secondly the Christian illiterate who wrote this page needs to know Vishnu does not die like Jesus Christ but he takes several forms as per the requirement to relieve human kind of evil forces. For example in the “Narasimha Avataram” he takes the form of half man and half lion and represents a very beastly and ferocious form. This is because his purpose of killing Hiranyakasipu needs to be fulfilled. Hiranyakasipu cannot be killed by a man or a beast, so the half man and half beastly form. Having said that being an atheist i care not if Jesus does or Vishnu dies, neither of them are real and are fairy tales of prehistoric men who wrote all this stuff while smoking grass. It does not stop here. The guy says the last one is “kalkin”, excuse me but is not that supposed to be “Kalki”? I find it really funny because he talks like an expert and know all of Hinduism but cannot even spell a 5 letter work right! How difficult could it be spelling Kalki, never mind. The Final section of the page goes to say the following… Rama and Krishna never existed, like Hamlet or Holmes, never existed and they do not exist right now, they existed only in the imagination of the novelist. Jesus Christ is God, a person live right now… he is real, he can clean all our bad karma, forgive all our sins… he is the real Brahman made flesh who died on a Cross with love, to pay for all our sins, to clean all our bad karma, and resurrected to give us a new glorious life on Earth, and an eternal life in Heaven, as the “person” we are, and without the need of any reincarnation… and it is free, just believe in Jesus!… He is at your side right now!… Christianity Advertising just could not get better could it? Rama and Krishna never existed? Maybe yes, they never did just like Jesus Christ did not exist. Little does our author realize that there is not just evidence for Krishna and Rama to have existed but there is no evidence for any religious entity to have existed in the history of the human race. Probably the only proof of god to have existed is Buddha and Lord Mahavira, if at all you could call man turned divines as god. There is no proof for Mohammed or Allah to have existed. Technically speaking there is one point that could prove enough that a person by the name of Jesus Christ, the lord or the so called saviour of mankind never existed. There was a great Philosopher named “Philo” who lived during the times of Jesus Christ. He lived from around 20 BC to 50 AD approximately and documented most of the things that happened during those times. Being the expert and the genius of an identity that he was he should have mentioned in at least one of his many hundreds of literature that he wrote about the great son of god Jesus Christ. Guess what? He did not write a thing about Jesus or his Christ. Considering the fact that Jesus was a ultra famous personality who was known amongst every one and Phylio and Jesus, both of them lived in Jerusalem its astonishing a fact. Out of the hundreds of odd miracles of Jesus Christ performed its funny that Phylio did not even document one to state that he knows someone or someone by name Jesus Christ existed during his times. Forget Phylio, let’s consider he was a retarded fellow who supported the Jews and wanted to mess with the history of Jesus and hence smoked all the information during the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But then we have a particular astronomical event that would have attracted the attention of anyone interested in the “heavens.” According to Luke 23:44-45, there occurred “about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour, and the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.” Yet not a single mention of such a three hour ecliptic event got recorded by anyone, including the astronomers and astrologers, anywhere in the world, including Pliny the Elder and Seneca the Younger who both recorded eclipses from other dates. Note also that, for obvious reasons, eclipses can’t occur during a full moon (Passovers always occur during full moons), Nor does a single contemporary person write about the earthquake described in Matthew 27:51-54 where the earth shook, rocks ripped apart (rent), and graves opened. Its funny the Christian missionaries are happily badmouthing every other religion when their stories and accounts are a classic example of embarrassment in the first place.
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Jesus is now a Brahman?
Written by Dilip Muralidaran on January 1, 2008 – 5:46 pm -
I recently came across this webpage that was created for purposes of evangelization. Quite a nice presentation on how great the god of Christ is and how his love will save the world. In technical terms this webpage is a fantastic collection of not so very accurate but a very complete collection of Hindu Gods and Goddesses. I cannot deny the fact that they have taken the efforts to put together this long list of gods. Born in a Hindu family it’s quite difficult a task frankly and they have done a good job. However the funniest thing is that they have explained the Hindu Gods in such great precise detail it looks like a documentation of Hindu Deities. Nevertheless there are some cheap statements the website pulls of which i would like to address here. After explaining in detail the concept of everything being a divine being in Hinduism unlike the monolithic Christian religion which sings the praise of a Christ they feel it is their responsibility to take a dig at Hinduism by saying things like “these gods are not God, they can not make stars, nor roses, nor human hearts...” I’m actually impressed. So does that mean that Jesus Christ could make stars, Grow Roses and also fix human hearts? It looks like i can fire all the astronomers in NASA since Jesus can take care of the stars and celestial bodies. I could fire my gardener since Jesus can grow roses. I could also nuke all the Heart Surgeons in town and be done with it because Jesus could not fix hearts too. However the humble reality is that you would end up paying the price of gold for a rose, have no clue about what’s around the planet and which asteroid heads our way or have all of our senior citizens with heart ailments bite the dust. Then the text goes on to describe Vishnu as… Vishnu, is the savior and protector of mankind, he incarnates, like Jesus, but 10 times!… the last one, as “Kalkin”, is still to come. He is very popular, and shown as one of his 9 incarnations (”avatars”), as fish, tortoise, a boar… the last 3 were Rama, Krishna, and Buddha, who are very popular, most specially Krishna for Hinduism… I have some problems with this statement. The number of times Vishnu reincarnates is not a specific number in Hinduism. Secondly the Christian illiterate who wrote this page needs to know Vishnu does not die like Jesus Christ but he takes several forms as per the requirement to relieve human kind of evil forces. For example in the “Narasimha Avataram” he takes the form of half man and half lion and represents a very beastly and ferocious form. This is because his purpose of killing Hiranyakasipu needs to be fulfilled. Hiranyakasipu cannot be killed by a man or a beast, so the half man and half beastly form. Having said that being an atheist i care not if Jesus does or Vishnu dies, neither of them are real and are fairy tales of prehistoric men who wrote all this stuff while smoking grass. It does not stop here. The guy says the last one is “kalkin”, excuse me but is not that supposed to be “Kalki”? I find it really funny because he talks like an expert and know all of Hinduism but cannot even spell a 5 letter work right! How difficult could it be spelling Kalki, never mind. The Final section of the page goes to say the following… Rama and Krishna never existed, like Hamlet or Holmes, never existed and they do not exist right now, they existed only in the imagination of the novelist. Jesus Christ is God, a person live right now… he is real, he can clean all our bad karma, forgive all our sins… he is the real Brahman made flesh who died on a Cross with love, to pay for all our sins, to clean all our bad karma, and resurrected to give us a new glorious life on Earth, and an eternal life in Heaven, as the “person” we are, and without the need of any reincarnation… and it is free, just believe in Jesus!… He is at your side right now!… Christianity Advertising just could not get better could it? Rama and Krishna never existed? Maybe yes, they never did just like Jesus Christ did not exist. Little does our author realize that there is not just evidence for Krishna and Rama to have existed but there is no evidence for any religious entity to have existed in the history of the human race. Probably the only proof of god to have existed is Buddha and Lord Mahavira, if at all you could call man turned divines as god. There is no proof for Mohammed or Allah to have existed. Technically speaking there is one point that could prove enough that a person by the name of Jesus Christ, the lord or the so called saviour of mankind never existed. There was a great Philosopher named “Philo” who lived during the times of Jesus Christ. He lived from around 20 BC to 50 AD approximately and documented most of the things that happened during those times. Being the expert and the genius of an identity that he was he should have mentioned in at least one of his many hundreds of literature that he wrote about the great son of god Jesus Christ. Guess what? He did not write a thing about Jesus or his Christ. Considering the fact that Jesus was a ultra famous personality who was known amongst every one and Phylio and Jesus, both of them lived in Jerusalem its astonishing a fact. Out of the hundreds of odd miracles of Jesus Christ performed its funny that Phylio did not even document one to state that he knows someone or someone by name Jesus Christ existed during his times. Forget Phylio, let’s consider he was a retarded fellow who supported the Jews and wanted to mess with the history of Jesus and hence smoked all the information during the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But then we have a particular astronomical event that would have attracted the attention of anyone interested in the “heavens.” According to Luke 23:44-45, there occurred “about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour, and the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.” Yet not a single mention of such a three hour ecliptic event got recorded by anyone, including the astronomers and astrologers, anywhere in the world, including Pliny the Elder and Seneca the Younger who both recorded eclipses from other dates. Note also that, for obvious reasons, eclipses can’t occur during a full moon (Passovers always occur during full moons), Nor does a single contemporary person write about the earthquake described in Matthew 27:51-54 where the earth shook, rocks ripped apart (rent), and graves opened. Its funny the Christian missionaries are happily badmouthing every other religion when their stories and accounts are a classic example of embarrassment in the first place.
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