He was arrested for “deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs.” The question of whether or not Islam really is a “ticking time bomb of terror” was not addressed.
These kinds of laws are coming to the West, under the guise of “hate speech” laws, which are coming in under the increasingly familiar slogan “Hate speech is not free speech.” The question of who gets to determine what is hate speech and what isn’t is not, of course, addressed. If Hegde really said that Islam should be “eradicated,” he should clarify exactly how he proposes to do such a thing, and his proposal should be rejected if it involves any form of violence. Immediately prosecuting him for saying that “Islam is a ticking time bomb of terror,” however, only postpones the necessary discussion that free societies are going to have to have sooner or later, about whether Islam is a ticking time bomb of terror. Meanwhile, the Islamic jihad bombs will continue to go off.
“’Islam a ticking time bomb of terror’ – BJP MP Ananth Kumar Hegde; Police registered a case,” Siasat Daily, March 2, 2016:
Bengaluru: Ananth Kumar Hegde, BJP MP from Uttara Kannada termed Islam “ticking time bomb of terror”. After this remark which hurt the religious sentiments of the Muslims, a case was registered against him yesterday.
According to the news published in Indian Express, in a press meeting held in Sirsi, Karnataka on Sunday, Hegde had allegedly termed Islam “ticking time bomb of terror” which needed to be eradicated. He is said to have accused presspersons of helping terrorists by airing views of JNU student, Umar Khalid’s father, a former member of the banned SIMI.
Sirsi Police registered a case against Hegde on a complaint filed by Luqmaan Bantwal, vice-president of the Dakshina Kannada unit of the Indian Youth Congress under Section 295(A) of IPC for “deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs’’.

SoCalMike says
Surprising the Indians suffer from malignant PC too.
Somewhere between 80-100 million Indians were slaughtered by invading Muslims.
mortimer says
India’s pre-independence laws are being used to defend Muslim terrorism from criticism.
Anonymous says
From “The Hindu” newspaper (http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/scribblers-scholars-in-the-same-boat/article5723012.ece),
“Section 295A was absent from the Indian Penal Code of 1860 in its original form. It was added much later in 1927. The series of events leading to the enactment of the provision began in 1924 with the publication of a pamphlet Rangila Rasula… by Mahashe Rajpal criticising the personal life of Prophet Mohamed. Rajpal claimed to do it out of a spirit of public reform. Rajpal was charged under Section 153A with intentionally promoting or attempting to promote feelings of enmity or hatred between “his majesty’s subjects.” He pleaded not guilty. Reversing the trial court’s conviction, the Lahore High Court in Rajpal vs. King Emperor (1927) held that although the pamphlet was indeed a “scurrilous satire on the founder of the Muslim religion” he did not find that it was meant “to attack the Mahomedan religion as such or to hold Mahomedans as objects worthy of enmity or hatred.”
The court added that Section 153A “was intended to prevent persons from making attacks on a particular community as it exists at the present time and was not meant to stop polemics against deceased religious leaders however scurrilous and in bad taste such attacks might be.”
Placing a wider interpretation on the section, the court feared, would lead to a “historical work in which the life of the prophet was considered and judgment passed on his character by a serious historian” coming within the ambit of the penal provision.
The judgment led to a feeling of resentment among the Muslims and there were fears that the already surcharged communal atmosphere of North India could get out of hand. Wanting to diffuse tensions, the British Governor of Punjab, Sir Malcolm Hailey assured the Muslim community that an amendment to the penal code would be considered, failing which he acknowledged the real possibility of “endless trouble.”
It was under these circumstances that the draft Section 295A made its way into the National Assembly.”
From the Indian Express newspaper (http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/insult-to-religion-/7214/)
“A tract, Rangila Rasool, was published in which there were scandalous references to Prophet Mohammed’s personal life.”… “Incidentally the author of the tract was murdered in Court.”
mortimer says
Scholarly and interesting.
However, in light of the 2014 decision of the Supreme Court of India, expressing an opinion about political Islam may not be illegal and Ananth Kumar Hegde’s comment may be considered a fair comment in a free society.
The Supreme Court of India on Monday 3 March 2014, dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) by Advocate M L Sharma seeking intervention by the court in directing the Election Commission to curb hate speeches. Dismissing the plea, the Apex court said that it could not curb the fundamental right of the people to express themselves.
“We cannot curtail fundamental rights of people. It is a precious right guaranteed by Constitution,” a bench headed by Justice RM Lodha said, adding “we are a mature democracy and it is for the public to decide. We are 1280 million people and there would be 1280 million views. One is free not to accept the view of others”. Also the court said that it is a matter of perception, and a statement objectionable to a person might be normal to another person.
ainu888 says
“Rangeela Rasool,” for those who want to know, means the colorful prophet.
Sandra Lee Smith says
Very much as our 1st Amendment is being used to defend it as a religion, when it’s so much more than that!
Linde Barrera says
Free speech was meant to offend, and if someone gets mad over free speech, they can get “unmad” in a short while. Free speech forever!
Christianblood says
Western liberal policies such as “political-correctness” and similar policies are spreading across the globe like a bush fire!
Angemon says
Always the West’s fault with you, isn’t it? Even when it has nothing to do with the West. There’s a much more simpler explanation, as pointed out by miriamrove on his March 17, 2016 at 11:46 am post, but f*** Occam’s razor, bring in the conspiracy theories.
mortimer says
Linde Barrera wrote: “Free speech was meant to offend”
Hmmm…the Enlightenment began when Galileo saw the planetary motion and said, ‘E pur, si muove.’
We must demand the right to express what is clearly true, accurate and factual, rather than hide the facts for fear of an angry mullah whose mind hasn’t left the 7th century.
Freedom of expression was about the freedom to speak TRUTH as it is revealed in nature and human observation. To the leaders of the Enlightenment, freedom was mainly the right to criticize the rulers of the day, the Roman Catholic Church and its puppet masters, the European aristocracies.
The freedom to criticize RELIGION is the basis of our current human rights. We should remember that when someone tells us we may not criticize Islam. Back in 1700, they told people they could not criticize the Church. We need to remind people of that and insist on our right to criticize Islam.
The assumption made is that Islam is the established religion. It is not.
Sandra Lee Smith says
It IS however, the de facto state religion in the US for the past couple or three years, thanks to O’s protectionist policies, and coming closer to being the de jure state religion here!
mortimer says
MP Ananth Kumar Hegde’s only error is being ahead of the curve. While it is correct that Islam is a timebomb in India and elsewhere…the ‘timebomb’ has gone off MASSIVELY in India already with 80 million Hindus killed by jihad…and more recently, a big Islamic timebomb went off in the Mumbai Massacres.
Western elites are, however, not ready to accept that Islam per se is an unreformable political problem that derives from the Islamic source texts. Western elites (and Muslims in India) want to whitewash the supremacist, jihadic agenda that all Muslims MUST BELIEVE in or be considered ‘apostates’ who should be executed by other Muslims more-believing than themselves.
Vigilantism (authorized by the Koran, hadiths and Sharia law, as well as by Al Azhar University) is the means by which Islam eliminates opponents and spreads itself and maintains its grip on individuals, families, and whole countries.
Islam’s ‘timebomb’ is going off now a minimum of three times a day around the world in jihad attacks.
MP Ananth Kumar Hegde’s indictment of Islam is very true.
Sandra Lee Smith says
Very true; but then the Elites want to use Islam to create the chaos they need to ring in their 1 world government; thinking, foolishly, that they’ll then be able to control or eliminate it! So, for now, they shield it.
mccode says
Maybe the critics should jog their memories just a bit and recall this:
In November 2008, 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic militant organisation based in Pakistan, carried out a series of 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.[11][12][13] The attacks, which drew widespread global condemnation, began on Wednesday, 26 November and lasted until Saturday, 29 November 2008, killing 164 people and wounding at least 308.
Just one of several “peaceful” demonstrations that could be cited.
mortimer says
Tick, tick, tick, tick.
A minimum of three deadly jihad attacks are committed every day.
miriamrove says
Of course they registered a case against him. If not the results would be the following:
Riots
Suicide bombings
Mass shootings
Hindu temples set on fire…..m
TheBuffster says
And *that* is the result of having a critical mass of people in one’s society that don’t abide by the principles that respect and protect the individual’s right to think and to speak his mind without violence.
Once you have enough such barbarians in your community, *they* become the de facto law enforcement – enforcing their own laws. When there are *enough* of them, they scare the police themselves. And you get laws that capitulate to the bullies in order to keep the peace.
But if violence wins the day, why should the bullies stop at shutting people up? Why shouldn’t they demand – and get – everything they want?
The key to avoiding this horror is to not grant residency to hoards of people who have no respect for the rule of secular law or intellectual freedom and free speech.
India couldn’t avoid their situation – the Muslims invaded hundreds of years ago.
We *can* still avoid it in the USA.
Aatheist7 says
Spot on Buffster. I particularly like your phrase “critical mass of people”. It is refreshing to see how one can get a reasonable explanation for things without crediting all the good things to God and all of the bad things to the Devil. In the past, Atheists may have killed people for bad reasons like power, lust, and wealth – but never because their supernatural deity to them to do so.
Sandra Lee Smith says
Very true; but then the Elites want to use Islam to create the chaos they need to ring in their 1 world government; thinking, foolishly, that they’ll then be able to control or eliminate it! So, for now, they shield it.
Westman says
Ridiculous! The country, India, that had to be carved into three pieces because the “Islam bomb of terror” went off in the past, is now persecuting ctizens who speak out about Islam’s “ticking time bomb of terror” in the present; a time and population bomb which threatens to derail the progress of India.
If stasis is the desire of India then it should make Islam, the great waster of life and time, the state religion so every citizen can live a life of slavery, directed by an elite cleric class – a group of leaders, including Muhammad, who have never heard from Allah, never seen Allah, and just have words from an “Angel” who conveniently justified murder and pillage of non-believers as a system of increasing wealth and power.
It is so obvious that the “time bomb” will go off for India. With Islamic Sedition within itself and a nuclear-sword-rattling Islamic Pakistan next door, the countdown is running.
mortimer says
If Muslims in India are upset by freedom of expression, let them go to Bangla Desh or Pakistan where they can ‘enjoy’ Islamic censorship.
DFD says
Robert Spencer says: “These kinds of laws are coming to the West…”
What does he mean ‘coming’? We already have them. At least in the UK, Benelux Countries, Germany/Austria and Scandinavia. Though, I grant, it may not (yet) be so in the US – unless Hillary Merkel wins. Or is that Angela Clinton?
Further: “…Meanwhile, the Islamic jihad bombs will continue to go off.”
That’s the bit I cannot comprehend about us, the west/NATO that is. We have so many of these, so why don’t we have a party with them? We bring the bombs. They’d love that, all those virgins. BTW, what actually is a virgin?
vlparker says
I’m really not understanding the West’s rush to suicide. Maybe the greenies are right. Must be the CO2.
Westman says
They are definitely, “light headed”.
Jay Boo says
Just Imagine
How many innocent lives might be saved if the truth about Islam were to become ubiquitous.
pdxnag says
If the Democratic Party enacted a rule that apostates from their organization must be killed by remaining members then I think I would have hard time opposing ultimate violence against them and their remaining members until they abandoned their rule or the Democratic Party was otherwise extinguished. Some features deserve to be repelled as if they were a declaration of war on the rest of us, and on our freedom.
Angemon says
Unfortunately, Europe is ahead of the curve on that particular regard.
Myxlplik says
Peacefully facilitating the exodus of Muslims from India to Pakistan would save a lot of innocent lives, by eradicating Islam from India.
There, now it’s a complete thought, and problem solved.
Pat says
Notice how Muslims don’t get arrested for the crap they spout daily, and from the pulpit?
citycat says
Use a bit of kung fu and touché Islam back.
This cancer has to be blasphemed against.
Islam has to be understood.
Know thine enemy.
But more than that, a lot of the world, it seems, does not realize that there is an enemy, or even that there is a war.
All this war might be a smokescreen over a more sinister core, as well as over the breeding spores.
Maybe life is one eternal war and that’s all there to it, it could seem.
Sandra Lee Smith says
How do you “blaspheme” a cancer, be it spiritual or physical? Islam is a cancer in humanity at large; the individuals never mature (exactly like cancer cells in a body), to serve the purpose for which they were created; they just consume resources and eventually kill the host body. What is there in that that can be blasphemed?
Truth Seeker says
Many times we come Across Paradoxes. Communal Hatred is a Behavior Introduced and Practiced by Muslims.Unlike in the Past, now Hindus and Buddhists try to imitate part of it. Those who do that, are labeled as Trouble makers.
At the same time, Muslims are Free to Spread to Communal Hatred and many supporters come up, those who propagate Communal hatred do not understand Islam.
What does it show? The Extent of Influence of Infiltrated Islamic Trojan Horses in the Administration.
Sandra Lee Smithn says
I think that’s what we’re seeing globally in the once “free” nations of the world.