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"We are always asked, never to question religion. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom to offend.
Yes, but Freedom of speech ceases to exist, if it’s not for the person who disagrees with you." - Kamal Hassan
The law only sides with the people who engage in religious disputes, threatening to take law and order into their own hands.
Secularism is about respecting beliefs of people from other religions and true to its essence it should also respect the beliefs of people who are non religious and non believers.
Secularism is perhaps the root cause of all cultural terrorism today.
What secularism did was create a space for all religions to coexist - and it was one thing all religious people agreed to, because none of the religions like to be questioned. That’s how they have stayed relevant across history, by keeping out rational scrutiny.
But the non-believers were maliciously snubbed; they are not recognized even in the Indian constitution. While there are provisions that protect the sentiments of religious people, there is none for the none believers.
This is an irony in itself because the same constitution that guarantees you freedom of speech, puts a clause where exercizing the same freedom in context of religion is considered blasphemy and is a punishable offense.
If targeting minorities is branded communal, then isn't the Indian constitution culpable of infringing on the rights of the biggest minority made of non believers?
With the aforementioned context, it won't be wrong to say that India biggest cause of communal violence might be her secular constitution.
Secularism in India involves govt. elected by majority siding with a fringe minority that’s threatening violence to deny the rights to an individual.
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