‘Love jihad’, anti-Mother Teresa, and now Muslim actors targeted.
AB Wire
NEW DELHI: The controversial Bharatiya Janata Party leader and preacher Sadhvi Prachi, who had stoked anti-Muslim sentiments in India by alleging that the Hindus were in danger of being dwarfed by the minority community with the onslaught of a ‘love jihad’, has now again drawn ire and ridicule by her comments to boycott the films of Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan, because their films are spreading a “culture of violence.”
It’s not known if the sadhvi has seen any of the recent films of the Khans, and been influenced by it, but in a speech she gave at a Vishwa Hindu Parishad meeting in Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh, on Sunday, she advised the young generation in India not to watch the trio’s films or to idolize them.
Prachi gave the right-wing gathering an anecdote to advance her point: that at a program in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, a boy told her that he wanted to be like the film stars, because of the stunts they did.
“I, for one, would ask the Bajrangis to tear the posters of films of Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan of the walls and burn them in the fire of Holi,” she told the gathering in Dehradun.
Prachi is also infamous for espousing the notion of ‘love jihad’ where her analysis is that Muslims are “trapping our daughters through ‘love jihad'”. She has also been critical of Nobel Laureate Mother Teresa, whom she believed indulged in massive Hindu conversions. It’s a stance taken by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat too.
“Mother Teresa indulged in conversion by luring people over to Christianity under the pretext of service,” she has said.
It’s one thing for preachers like Prachi to give a call to the youth to boycott Bollywood films done by the stars. It’s quite another for people to not get enough of those films, in India.
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लेकिन चुलबुल ‘रॉबिन हुड’ पांडे मेरे सिनेमा नायक है!
(But Chulbul ‘Robin Hood’ Pandey is my movie hero!)
Discrimination between religion is against the law in every country. Strict action against this leader should be taken against this as soon as possible.