More About...M F Hussain's hypocrisy- DON'T FEEL SHY TO FORWARD

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>>Dear all;
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>>M.F Hussain's Hypocrisy....Plz Judge Yourself
>>If a Danish journalist depicts the Prophet of the Muslims , Muslims all over the world rise in anger, there is violence, a booty on the head of the Journalist - Muslims are not criticized for being communal and intolerant,
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>>If MF Hussain draws paintings depicting Hindu Gods and Goddesses in sexual positions (which relations are not borne out by ancient texts at all ) and Hindus merely protest , they are called communal, intolerant and taught lessons in secularism by one and all.
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>>The problem apparently is not with  Muslims, it is with Hindus , because we are not violent, we accept what ever is dished out to us , we do not have the guts to say that this is wrong , we seek acceptance from outsiders rather than from our conscience. We worship the same Gods and Goddesses but don't stand up for them when the time comes.
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>>If you believe Hussain is wrong, forward this message.
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>>Be a judge yourself of Hussain's paintings below.
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>>Goddess Durga in sexual union with Tiger
>>Prophet's Daughter Fatima fully clothed
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>>Goddess Lakshmi naked on Shree Ganesh's head
>>M.F. Hussain's Mother fully clothed
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>>Naked Saraswati
>>Mother Teresa fully clothed
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>>Naked Shri Parvati
>>Hussain's Daughter well clothed
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>>Naked Draupadi.
>>Well clothed Muslim Lady.
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>>Naked Lord Hanuman and Goddess Sita sitting on thigh of Ravana
>>Muslim poets Faiz, Galib are shown well-clothed
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>>Full Clad Muslim King and naked Hindu Brahmin. The above painting clearly indicates Hussain's tendency to paint any Hindu as naked and thus his hatred.
>>Naked Bharatmata - Hussain has shown naked woman with names of states written on different parts of her body. He has used Ashok Chakra, Tri-colour in the painting. By doing this he has violated law & hurt National Pride of Indians. Both these things should be of grave concern to every Indian irrespective of his religion.
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>>Out of the four leaders M. Gandhi is decapitated and Hitler is naked. Hussain hates Hitler and has said in an interview 8 years ago that he has depicted Hitler naked to humiliate him and as he deserves it ! How come Hitler's nudity cause humiliation when in Hussain's own statement nudity in art depicts purity and is in fact an honour ! This shows Hussain's perversion and hypocrisy.
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>>Don't feel shy to circulate & at Least people should know what mf hussain is.Similarly;

The Faithful Versus Art 
(not the pro-God action one might think)

Yes, it's yet another story of the faithful demanding the death of an artist for dissing their dieties. This time in India. From artinfo.com:

A court has issued an arrest warrant for M.F. Husain, India's best-known artist [see image at right, Untitled, Oil on Canvas9, 0" x 65", 1964,] after he failed to appear in a case related to his depiction of a nude "Mother India," a report said today.

An activist in the city of Indore, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, had filed a case there against the artist, saying that his painting offended the sentiments of Hindus, the Press Trust of India news agency said.

The artist's lawyers had asked for the case to be moved to the capital New Delhi, expressing fears about the painter's safety in the central state.

A month ago, a hardline Hindu group offered a reward of $11.5 million for the murder of the controversial artist.

Right-wing Hindu outfits regularly target the 90-year-old Husain, who is a Muslim, for drawing their gods and goddesses in the nude.

My guess is that Husain is a bit of a MINO (Muslim in name only), but I'm very happy to see the overall global debate take on a bit of nuance. But the mere fact that the blood-thirsty fanatics calling for his murder are not struck dead by God is the strongest evidence I can think of to suggest the atheists are on to something.

Now despite my admitted agnosticism, there are symbols I feel so strongly about that I think I might turn to violence if someone desecrated them (think symbols of dearly departed loved ones, for example, and I'm sure you might have some too), so it's tough for me to laugh away the concerns of the offended here, as if they were merely country pumpkins turned political pawns. Tough...but not impossible. 

What I'm astonished at is the irony of how they race to murderous thoughts rather than charitable ones. Why the artist isn't viewed as pitiful and in need of help for not appreciating the glory to be found in the dieties is confusing...in other words, why don't they practice what they preach? Essentially, through their actions, they are being much more offensive toward their gods than the artist is.

I mean, if their gods are the blessed beings they believe them to be, the guiding lights, the truth and the way, they certainly wouldn't need defending by their motley mortal masses. Their example and strength and glory would speak for itself, outshining any mean-spirited critque, no? And more than that, they would, one suppose, fill their followers' hearts with the sort of bliss that's incompatible with blinding hatred, no?

In other words, the followers' actions are in and of themselves an insult to their own gods, suggesting that the weakling immortals need them rally round to defend them and in doing so become unglorious monsters in response to the humble human critique of one lonely painter. Why can't their gods fend for themselves against such a tiny threat, if they're so powerful?

Of course, what we're really talking about here is who owns the symbols that stand for the power, but I don't think the murderous mobs are working through that thought process. They're simply allowing themselves to be manipulated by political low-lifes who clearly have little faith themselves, otherwise they'd hestitate to blaspheme their gods through essentially arguing they are helpless.

Or something like that....

     

14MAR/102

A red card for the Secular Indian Muslim

I am posting a brilliant piece (published by Indian Express) by my dear friend Rakhshanda Jalil - she is a bold yet sensitive writer based in Delhi. All power to her pen.

The controversy regarding the conferment of Qatari nationality upon M.F. Husain — and his acceptance of it — has given us the opportunity to revisit an old but neglected debate. The debate on being an Indian Muslim or a Muslim Indian is old hat; but the one concerning the “secular Indian Muslim” — the SIM? — needs our urgent attention. Those who doubt the existence of such a breed and view it as a contradiction in terms would do well to remember the legacy of a long line of distinguished people, from Mirza Ghalib, Hakim Ajmal Khan, Dr M.A. Ansari, Maulana Azad, Dr Zakir Husain to M.F. Husain, to name just a few. Then there are the nameless millions — doctors, lawyers, writers, journalists, teachers, wage earners who are living proof of Indian secularism. Husain is simply another link in this ganga-jamuni chain. He needs to neither establish his credentials nor protest his innocence; his work speaks for him.

Having established the credentials of this breed, let us set out the contours of its present dilemma: one, it exists in sufficiently large numbers to have escaped our notice yet, oddly enough, has never managed to establish a public profile for itself; nor has it, given its numbers, translated into a sufficiently large, and therefore woo-able, vote bank. Two, despite its largish presence (I imagine roughly half the population of Muslims in India), the breed is under severe threat.

One is not interested in establishing the presence of the SIM, for that one takes as a given. It has always existed in the weft of the Indian tapestry as the warp that runs alongside. In fact, what ought to concern us is the threat to its existence. That this threat is

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