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Who’ll silence Varun?

In India there is no specific legislation dealing with “hate speech” as such. The closest is Section 153A of the Indian Penal Code which prohibits speech or writings which promote enmity, hatred, ill-will or disharmony inter alia between different religious groups or communities. A related prov ....Read more

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Well Said VrunBy: Vinod | Sunday , 29 Mar '09 9:41:23 AM Reply | Forward If Dr. Manmohan Singh is NOT communal by making the comment - MUSLIMS HAVE THE FIRST RIGHT ON OUR NATIONAL RESOURCES then Varun is also NOT communal. What ever Varun has spoken is the truth. The entire English media is working as mouth piece of Congress Party (including NDTV:Dr. Pranoy Roy and his disciples, IBN Live: Rajdeep Sardesai, Times Now: Aranab Goswami, TOI, Hindustan times: Vir Sanghvi, Karan Thapar etc etc). When Dr. Singh made communal remarks they kept their mouth SHUT, however, when other says they object it and lectures us…This is shameful.

hahahahaBy: rahul | Saturday , 28 Mar '09 0:52:34 AM Reply | Forward hahahaha so many stupids in thsi country and few are educated as well just like the persons who have commented below......i can only laugh and feel pity on these guys..chill and live in peace..varun ,sharun,rahul wahul etc are all playing for themselves not fo ru and me..

SecularBy: Jhon | Friday , 27 Mar '09 23:37:37 PM Reply | Forward Sir,When M.K. asked " In which engineering college Rama studied ?" our secular parties and medias are kept quiet. Whenever he abuses hindu gods our secular parties and medias are kept quiet. Now they are making hue and cry.Are these medias and so called secular parties really secular ?

Well Done !!By: Rajan Sharma | Friday , 27 Mar '09 20:59:44 PM Reply | Forward Whatever Varu said is all true and India needs one like him. The election commission is silent over other contestants who are real criminals and contesting on Mayawati's tickets. All muslims in Kashmir are giving speeches openly agaainst India and Hindus, but who cares. That is not a crime. But if someone said anything in favor of Hinduism, it becomes a problem for everyone in India.Wwell Done, Varun !!!

FAMILY FEUD IS MORE THAN FACTS?By: B S GANESH | Friday , 27 Mar '09 20:27:56 PM Reply | Forward It is unfortunate that the whole media and politicians are biased against the Hindus because Hindus are weak and practice patience and toleration. We have faced persecution for the last 1300 years which still goes on under the congress rule in Indipendent India. Besides I strongly feel that Varun and Maneka belong to Indira Gandhi family and Maneka's Sister-in-law and Varun's cousins are in power wants to ruin him. This is a family hatred which is prevalent in Indian families. B S GANESH

Silencing whom?By: K | Friday , 27 Mar '09 19:54:25 PM Reply | Forward Varun is lot better than Rahul...Go Varun! Speaking about silencing Varun. Its not going to happen. Silence Mulayam, Lalu, Bukhari, and MJ Akbar first.

Biased mediaBy: RM | Friday , 27 Mar '09 15:13:09 PM Reply | Forward It is unfortunate that the whole media is biased against the Hindus because we are weak. We have faced persecution for the last 1300 years which still goes on under the congress rule in Indipendent India. Our films chastise the English rule even if they gave a lot to India in terms of science, technology and systems like postal, telegraph, railway, university, etc. But the movies always glorify the Muslim rulers--jodhaa akbar, mugle azam, tipu sultan, etc. ingnoring and covering the cruelty they unleashed on the Hindu population. I am surprised that even after this how Hindus have been able to survive till now on the planet Earth!!!

Mature leadership requiredBy: Dr B Sundara | Friday , 27 Mar '09 14:40:51 PM Reply | Forward If Mr Varun Gandhi has really made objectionable remarks, then he deserves punishment as per the applicable law. But as he claims, if the CDs had been tampered with, will there be a thorough investigation on that and the gulty will be punished? One important question every Indian need to answer is whether the country is really secular or only declared to be secular? There should not be any doubt that the country must follow secularism to remain united and peaceful. But are we strengthening secular belief and practice? Many comments here suggest that a particular religion is under stress. Same may be the feeling of the other religion too. Can we seek mandate of the people based on economic policies and programmes? Whether votes are not sought on the basis of caste, community or religion by the candidates, may be indirectly?We have created enough divisions among the people. We need more mature political leadership to get out of this muddle and guide us to the future

Bought out mediaBy: ranjeev | Friday , 27 Mar '09 14:22:02 PM Reply | Forward It's very clear from editorials of Indian Express these days that the editors of major English papers have been bought out. TOI was already a puppet of congress. These was one paper IE, now SGupta is also bought out. You can see how Congress is damaging this country. Have they ever mentioned in their editorials about Imams what they preach? Have they ever mentioned about Mahbooba Mufti and her father how much secular they are? Have they ever mentioned about AR Antulay how much secular he is - being a minister in the government? Varun Gandhi who has denied and refuted all allegations, despite of that, these people print such stories. They don't have other stories about price rise, national security, Jawans getting killed in Kashmir, Jawan's family not getting compensations promised to them etc. etc. but they have all the time to promote unproven hate speeches against a particular community. Don't forget that there will be no democracy or secularism when they reach 35% of population

solis speakBy: nick | Friday , 27 Mar '09 9:50:52 AM Reply | Forward Manish we shud say this to solisoli u are aparsi who was welcomed in india by us hindus when islam was persecuting u.NOw u seem to be biased against hindus and ganging up with other minorities,encouraged by our slavish english media with no scruples except vested interests.Have u ever written about the hate in madrasaas and mosques.Media hid comment by congress imran kidwai in punjab who said any one allying with bjp is a kafir by his fatwa if he was mullah.What does that mean.Love for hindus.And u were an attorney general.BUt dont worry u will get paid by shekra gupta to write this and gupta will cenor any comment in response,the great freee speech liberal that he is.Ofcourse he will deviously call this comment hate sppech to justify censoring this

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