But the ignorance prevailed until yesterday when I heard about a bus being burnt and 2 people actually loosing their lives, paying the cost of someone's comments and more than that to others unique way of expressing the resentment which they call "right to protest". If this is the "right to protest", I have my own doubts on democracy.
All the time I kept on thinking whether someone's faith in their religion/God is so vulnerable that a mere human being's comment can disgrace something as eternal as a religion or God. If you amount your no way humanitarian actions to such a reason, I am afraid but its still a long way for you to be a follower of the religion or a devotee of God.
I know that I am not very good at history and might not even know enough about my religion's history and events but all my life, the stories of devotees of God that I kept on reading, hearing, and watching, never mentioned the devotees to be bothered to this extent to do such an act. I never read Meera Bai or Bhakt Prahlad even reacting to the comments they have been hearing all their lives about the immortal entities they devoted their life to. Aren't these stories/events part of Hinduism? If they are, I am sure that they have been there for a purpose, a purpose of setting up an example of faith in yourself and in the Almighty that is not bound to anyone's comments. And the example has been set not just for reading but to be followed by the followers of the religion.
The much I am aware of Hinduism(being a Hindu), one of the most prominent principles is "Nar hi Narayan hai" (My interpretation: God is present in all living entities) and if that bunch of anguished people have been following the religion with such a devotion, how could their acts result in the death of two human beings, who I believe were no less God's loved children than those who burnt them alive. How could one expect God to be happy with that, how could one expect the religion to be graced with that?
