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Lecturer held for Islam remark
Hyderabad, July 13: More than 2,000 students of the St. Ann’s Degree College for Women in Mehdipatnam took out a protest on Friday after a lecturer allegedly made certain remarks against the Holy Quran and in favour of author Salman Rushdie. The students gathered in the college campus and raised slogans against the lecturer demanding an apology from her.
They were not ready to withdraw the protest even after she apologised.More than 100 police personnel were deployed at the college to avoid any untoward incidents. Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MLAs, Ahmed Pasha Quadri and Afsar Khan, and TRS MLA H.A. Rehman visited the college to support the students’ agitation and demanded the arrest of the lecturer.
She was later arrested by the Asif Nagar police on Friday evening.The students alleged that J. Prashanti, a political science lecturer of the college, had made the remarks after asking final year students to discuss Salman Rushdie and his writings. When she spoke in favour of the writer, the students disputed with her. Then the lecturer allegedly made remarks against Islam and Holy Quran. “She repeated this thrice in two days,” an agitating student said on condition of anonymity.
The students maintained that what actually angered them was the lecturer’s comment that their presence in the classroom meant that they had accepted her viewpoint.
Meanwhile, the college management and other lecturers backed Ms Prashanti and said the controversy arose due to misunderstanding. “It was purely misunderstanding,” said the college principal P. Fatima Rani. “I spoke to the lecturer over this and she told me that she did not pass on the remarks intentionally.” The principal added that the students did not complain to her of the incident. “I got to know of the issue through some of the lecturers on Friday and immediately I called both the students and the lecturer seeking an explanation,” she said. Ms Fatima reiterated that there was no need to take action on Ms Prashanti since she did nothing wrong. Other lecturers also supported her and said that the students and the media were blowing the issue out of proportion.
Under pressure from the students and MIM leaders, police took the lecturer to Asif Nagar police station for questioning and later booked a case against her under section 153A of IPC for promoting enmity between different religious groups.
Just Can't beleive what is happening!!! A lecturer arrested for saying something against a religion, that too its not proved!!! and see who's protesting!! Young students who are supposed to be the future stars of our country!!! Just absolute rubbish. There is nothing wrong in being pious and having loads of faith in a religion, but why this crazy attitude? What is lost if someone says wrong abt a religion, even if it offends ur faith, its not the end of the world is it? There are so many ways to explain to the offender that they have offended ur faith!! But my god, protesting to arrest, this is jus loads and loads of trash, nothing else. Unfortunately politicians also supporting the cause of these students!!
The Funniest part here is the matter of discussion is pertaining to political science and obviously controversial topics are to be debated as part of the curriculum and the students who have taken up the course know this well!!!
The worst part is the no. of people who gathered for the protest. 2000 members protesting for a remark is just too much and then protesting that the lecturer must be arrested even after she apologised is way too bad.
Our Country and the world is not going to benefit even a single bit by people who are fanatics and in an era where everybody is trying to achieve peace and prosperity things like this are not gonna help the cause and this kind of fanatism should be overcome by taking appropriate measures and one foremost thing u can do is not support these fanatics and dont give them the rights to rebel against something that's petty and rubbish, might sound unfair as every citizen can express their concerns but harsh steps have to be taken in order to curb things like this.
-Venkat.
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The only mistake she did was that she said that in a place which is swaarmed by Muslims.And that's the main reason all that hungama took place.
But i seriously didn't get as to what the gals ever achieved by getting her arrested?Beats my logic down
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Yeah i was also baffled by the news!! Jus the day b4 i was going through links pertaining 2 jihad and wat all these ppl do in the name of Islam!! was shell shocked, and then this news by students who have so many useful things to do other than things lik this!!! This is the main reason for writing this post:)
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