Abhilash, why can’t you see that Islamic fanaticism has become today a world wide threat to freedom of speech? In their times, all religions have used torture and violence as a right to silence their critics, however in today’s world, except for Islam, no other religion is insisting for this right – at least not openly.

But I agree to your other point. Today, Hindu communalists are the only ones in the world who match Islamic zealots in their ugliness. I only hope that it is a temporary phenomenon though all signs so far point otherwise. And, yes, Atanau plays softball to right wing Hindus, so no surprises here.

The written evidence here reflects that you dont have anything substantial to discuss wrt topic and hence start throwing malapropisms like “degree-owners”, “Bajrang Dal bloggers”.

FYI :- Mr Dey has about MoFo Hussain case.
Hmm perhaps ShastryJi will now up the ante from never having “guts to discuss” to never having balls and throw something extraneous again.

That’s why I mentioned the closely related issue of an exiled painter that Bajrang Dal bloggers will never have guts to discuss.

The issue is that of Freedom.
In a free place, pussies huff and puff about being offended and cant do much else.
In a repressive societies they do whats being done there.

US is US b/c there is a strong push the society has taken towards freedom.
A pornographer wrote about a the then rising religious figure in US Mr Fallwell as having sex with his mother in an outhouse. The case ran its verdicts and appeals to the supreme court
The thing went to supreme court where the pornographer Mr Flynts side won on the ground of freedom of speech.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell
That is what makes US great.

India is sliding fast towards Sudan because of people like Atanu who have nothing positive to contribute to society except their exclusive right wing propaganda and litany of impotent complaints and mechanical criticism of the “system”. Apparently, there is a closely related case of a painter along with Taslima, which Atanu’s blinkered eyes will no doubt find difficult to spot.

US is US because even in a predominantly Christian country people are showing guts to challenge the non-sense of majority communalism. It will also turn into a Sudan, when American Atanu-s start fanning their hate propaganda about their own religious and ethnic minorities, which some have already started.

The greatest difference between US and India is that in the US, hate mongers are booted out as paranoids. In India, they can pass as “respectable” intellectuals even among ‘educated” (read degree-owner) segment of society.