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Titolo: Lo fanno solo i musulmani

http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IEH20060207080218&Title=Top+Stories&Topic=0
Police probe Hussain over nude 'Mother India'
Wednesday February 8 2006 00:00 IST
Reuters
MUMBAI: Police are investigating a complaint against one of the
country's best-known artists after he portrayed "Mother India" as a
naked woman angering far-right Hindus, police said on Tuesday.
Nationalist politicians and activists routinely criticise Maqbool Fida
Hussain's paintings which often depict revered Hindu gods and goddesses
in the nude. A decade ago, radicals even attacked his Mumbai home.
The maverick artist's latest work, part of a series to be auctioned in
aid of Indian victims of last year's South Asian earthquake, shows a
naked woman in front of a wheel resembling the one used in India's
national flag. The names of some of India's states are written across
her body.
A similar composition of a sari-clad woman with a wheel -- a Buddhist
symbol known in Hindi as the dharma chakra -- in the background is used
to portray "Mother India" in many patriotic publications.
"Hussain's latest painting offends not only Hindus but Indians at
large," said Ramesh Shinde, a spokesman for the Hindu Janajagruti
Samiti that lodged the police complaint.
"He cannot be allowed to insult Indians and Hindus in the name of
artistic licence."
Shinde's group went to the police last week, calling for the arrest of
Hussain, 90, whose flowing white locks and beard, and his habit of
walking barefoot have become iconic in Indian art circles.
"We are looking into the matter," said a police official, who asked
not to be identified. He refused to give further details of the probe.
In the past, Hussain, a Muslim, has received support from moderate,
progressive Hindus, and on one occasion a former prime minister
intervened to ensure no action was taken against him.
In 2004, Hussain sealed a deal with a leading businessman to paint 100
canvases for one billion Indian rupees, in one of the biggest sales in
the country's growing art market.

 in the nude. A decade ago, radicals even attacked his Mumbai home.
Quindi i gruppi nazionalisti hindu hanno protestato, e i moderati hindu sono 
intervenuti in suo favore.
Nessuno gli ha torto un pelo della sua fluente barba bianca.
Se avesse provato a dipingere Maometto nudo, cosa pensi che gli avrebbero 
fatto gli islamici? sarebbe stato fortunato
a avere SOLO la gola tagliata.
Carlo "Jurassic Park" 

 Nessuno gli ha torto un pelo della sua fluente barba bianca.
Si, perche' i gruppi nazionalisti Hindu sono pacifici come pecorelle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babri_Mosque#December_6.2C_1992:_the_destruction_of_the_Babri_Masjid
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1845996.stm
GT

A Belfast una parata protestante e' stata cancellata per non offendere
i cattolici.
E cosa fanno i protestanti?
http://www.cathnews.com/news/509/96.php
Priest says Catholics live in fear after Protestant riots
After successive nights of extensive rioting by Protestant mobs in
Belfast and other parts of Northern Ireland, Catholics are living in
fear, said Fr Aidan Troy of Holy Cross Parish in Belfast.
"When rioting is taking place, members of this parish can't leave the
area, because access to the main roads is blocked. We're supposed to be
having a novena here this week, but speakers can't get in to us because
of the violence," he told Catholic News Service.
Northern Ireland Chief Constable Hugh Orde said the rioting was
organised by Protestant paramilitaries - the Ulster Defence Association
and the Ulster Volunteer Force - with disturbances breaking out in
seven different locations in Belfast and five different locations
outside the city in an effort to stretch police and army resources to
the maximum. Protestant leaders deny the charge.
Rioting started last Saturday after the Independent Parades Commission
ruled that a parade by the Orange Order, a Protestant fraternity, could
not pass through a Catholic district

 Si, perche' i gruppi nazionalisti Hindu sono pacifici come pecorelle.
Mai detto che lo siano, però non hanno torto un capello al pittore, e questo 
non puoi negarlo.
Fossero stati mussulmani, avrebbero già messo mano al coltello.
Carlo "Jurassic Park" 

could not pass through a Catholic district
Che e' una cosa ben diversa da quanto ha affermato quel fessacchiotto
disinformatore di un Torrieri :)
-Stefano