You may be aware of India’s ongoing battle with person’s of religioujs ire, you may not, but here is a story I followed a bit in April (in my mind) — which just had another piece of the puzzle put in place: violence. This was sort of the beginning of the violence, the Muslim “student union” was one of the main groups that led the attacks.
April 4, 2010
Chaitra Krushna Shashthi, Kaliyug Varsha 5112
Thodupuzha (Kerala): Mobs clashed with shopkeepers who refused to down their shutters in this Kerala town during a shutdown called by Muslim groups to protest alleged inflammatory questions in an exam of a private college here, police said on Friday. The shutdown was called without any prior information. The question paper of second year B.Com degree Malayalam course at the Newman College here allegedly had references to the Prophet that the Muslim organisations termed as ‘misleading and inflammatory’. The question paper was prepared at the college itself.
The title of the question was to put proper marks i.e. comma, question mark or exclamatory mark in the sentences given below :
Muhammad: God, God.
God: What is it you son of a bitch.
Muhammad: How many pieces will we get if we cut one Ayila (a type of fish)?
God: You dog I have told you so many times that there will be 3 pieces.
The Muslim groups attacked around forty shops and vehicles of those innocent Hindus who were unaware of the happenings and were trying to find out what had happened. They even stopped buses and made ladies and children get down of it and walk. The groups attacked press photographers as well as camera men. The leaders of Muslim groups were ordering there people to attack the press.
The attackers damaged the stone lamp post in front of famous Sree Krishna Swamy Temple. The police were simply standing like spectators even when they saw Muslims coming in groups from various places. Student groups affiliated to the Congress and the Indian Union Muslim League took out a protest march towards the college. The muslim groups started their protest march towards the college but it ended in clashes with shopkeepers who were not ready to close their shops. They damaged medical shops, hospitals and offices of some dailies…. (read more)
This college professor was later arrested and set out on bail for his writing an inflammatory paper about Muhammad.
A college professor has been arrested for preparing a question paper that had inflammatory references to Prophet Mohammed, police said Friday.
T.J. Joseph, a Malayalam teacher at Thodupuzha New Man College near here, was held Thursday for preparing the question paper with an objectionable reference to the Prophet for the internal examination of second year B.Com Malayalam students, a police officer said…. (read more)
Well, these groups finally cornered the guy and chopped off his right hand
Lecturer T J Joseph was returning home from church with his mother and sister around 8.30 am in Muvattupuzha in Ernakulam district when he was accosted by the attackers. “We had just got into our car when a van pulled up in front. Around eight people armed with swords and knives emerged and pulled out Joseph after smashing the windscreen.
They then chopped off his right hand and stabbed him in the left thigh,” said Joseph’s sister, Mary Stella, a nun.
“When we tried to prevent them, they attacked me and and our mother before exploding bombs and fleeing.”
A police team recovered the severed hand from the compound of a house about 200m away. The 52-year-old lecturer was rushed to a private hospital where his condition is serious….
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Many may not know, but some genocides are taking place around the world, and most are at the hands of Muslims. The Coptic Christians have been abducted, killed, locked up, etc. The Indians in places where Islam flourishes, they are also being exterminated. It is the attempted extermination of religious Hindus and Christians that should make the world even more upset with the Muslim religion. But the press seems to always in some weird PC manner label these attacks as aberrations, and not the norm.