Majority of the world population follows one or other religion.There is a section which does not believe in god and the persons belonging to this section are called atheists and there are among them communists also who believe in the ideology of Karl Marx or Mao tse Tung.To be an atheist or a communist is not blasphemy.Blasphemy is when somebody is disrespectful or wicked or making a mockery of god,prophets and their believers.Recently i heard one famous Indo-pak American writer,Salman Rushdie who has written a blasphemous novel’Satanic Verses’which is disrespectful to Quran and prophet Muhammed,saying that blasphemy is a freedom of expression and good for the world.I totally disagree with this statement.
Freedom of expression is with human responsibility attached to it.If our expression is hurting the beliefs of millions of people all over the world then it is better not to express.Salman Rushdie is an indian born writer whose family migrated to Pakistan and he was educated in and migrated to west.We can under stand that he was influenced by western culture and comfortable lifestyle and security and protection bestowed upon him.But all this luxurious life style at what cost?He used to call himself an atheist(non believer)in the beginning and later he said he converted to islam(perhaps out of fear when Fatwa was declared to kill him by Ayatollah khomeini of Iran)and now again he is talking in favour of blasphemy when some film’Innocence of muslims’ is being shown on you tube,a vulgar film disrepectful to prophet muhammed,made by some criminal.This kind of conduct by a famous indian born writer raises questions about his character.When an offspring of muslim parents settled in west is hurting the faith of billion+ muslim world then the person is definitely not having a sound character.I admire our late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi who had banned his book ‘Satanic Verses’in India.
After Salman rushdie’s book was published in west,there were so many blasphemous articles,cartoons and films published and exhibited in europe and america in the name of freedom of expression.America’s gun culture also is a form of freedom of expression which Salman rushdie seems to be liking.Average common man of the world does not like these acts of blasphemy,hooliganism and Salman rushdie seems to be interested in creating disturbance,chaos in the world,so the muslim world is right in trying to stop him from these blasphemous acts.