04-24-2007, 02:01 AM
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I have tried pointing this out to you in the other fora. Using the very same laws you point above the Calcutta Quran Petition was filed and thrown out by the judges, who said "A court of law cannot sit judge on the words of a "holy" book".
This was back in the 80's. Times have changed, someone should try again.
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Yes - I do recall your mentioning this on BRF.
That is why it is important to fight people and not a book. The desire to follow Mein Kampf becomes less acute after you have been soundly defeated and punished.
The idea is to catch an individual evangelist out (on video perhaps) making derogatory remarks and then slapping a case on him as a person who is deliberately spoiling communal harmony.
If this man's defence is that his holy book asks him to say that he will get himself and his kind deeper into a rut. But such a case has to be handled with finesse (that damn finesse word again!). Suing the Quran or Bible is pointless and I fear that "lack of finesse" would be someone doing exactly that.
If you recall - a few months ago there were these sensational reports about a London mullah who had instigated hatred of non Muslims. His defence lawyer pleaded that this man was instigating nothing - he was merely quiting verbatim from the Quran. For secular India even a court acceptace that quoting verbatim from a holy text sounds like hate speech against Hindus would be a powerful victory for the Hindu narrative. So I see efforts in this direction as being useful no matter what the actual court outcome.
The idea is to catch out people quoting from their holy books and then saying Hinduism is rubbish based on that. A sentence against that person is less important that the publicity given to that information about what certain holy texts imply. Word has to get around about what holy books say and what degree of love and peace is fostered (and in what manner and on whom this is bestowed) based on words in Holy books.
I have tried pointing this out to you in the other fora. Using the very same laws you point above the Calcutta Quran Petition was filed and thrown out by the judges, who said "A court of law cannot sit judge on the words of a "holy" book".
This was back in the 80's. Times have changed, someone should try again.
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Yes - I do recall your mentioning this on BRF.
That is why it is important to fight people and not a book. The desire to follow Mein Kampf becomes less acute after you have been soundly defeated and punished.
The idea is to catch an individual evangelist out (on video perhaps) making derogatory remarks and then slapping a case on him as a person who is deliberately spoiling communal harmony.
If this man's defence is that his holy book asks him to say that he will get himself and his kind deeper into a rut. But such a case has to be handled with finesse (that damn finesse word again!). Suing the Quran or Bible is pointless and I fear that "lack of finesse" would be someone doing exactly that.
If you recall - a few months ago there were these sensational reports about a London mullah who had instigated hatred of non Muslims. His defence lawyer pleaded that this man was instigating nothing - he was merely quiting verbatim from the Quran. For secular India even a court acceptace that quoting verbatim from a holy text sounds like hate speech against Hindus would be a powerful victory for the Hindu narrative. So I see efforts in this direction as being useful no matter what the actual court outcome.
The idea is to catch out people quoting from their holy books and then saying Hinduism is rubbish based on that. A sentence against that person is less important that the publicity given to that information about what certain holy texts imply. Word has to get around about what holy books say and what degree of love and peace is fostered (and in what manner and on whom this is bestowed) based on words in Holy books.