It seems a top Egyptian cleric has issued a fatwa against using networking sites like Facebook, saying Muslims using such cyber platforms must be considered “sinners”. Now what’s your first reaction to this news report? You are aghast, horrified, pissed off maybe. How can a cleric say that after all? That Muslims continue to live in medival times etc. etc.
Now read the whole report. The cleric is not saying anything that hasn’t already been said about social networking sites. There are tons of stories about marital infidelity and broken marriages that were triggered by social networking sites. Recently there was even a story of two wives in China discovering bigamy of their common husband through Facebook. But those stories sound funny to us and we can laugh at the stupidity of those people. However if a cleric says the same thing, our reaction is probably very different. Heck, he is a religious cleric after all. Religious clerics will link everything to God/Allah and they will link everything to sin, heaven and hell. Why should we expect anything else? We shouldn’t be revolted or shocked by just the headline without reading the full report.
Way to go India!
Posted in Current Affairs with tags Australia, comment, Current Affairs, india, news, opinion, politics on February 9, 2010 by lifeofhuesThe attacks on many Indians in Australia have raised a hue and cry in India. It seems some attacks weren’t actually race related after all. And there’s a point of view that if we have so much race/religion/region/language related attacks/riots in India, why we are really creating a hue and cry over some random attacks in a far away country. Whatever be the case, I found one thing interesting in the whole episode. That a first world country like Australia is taking notice of what’s being said in a third world country like India. And they seem worried about their reputation. Looks like India has arrived indeed. We are a force to reckon with and not to be taken lightly. Way to go India!!!
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