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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 03/07/2010 : 13:24:40
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A tip of the fedora once again to Ed Brayton for making me aware of this outrageous report from CFI: The Center for Inquiry’s New Delhi, India contacts have reported that CFI/India President Innaiah Narisetti, as well as two other individuals—Subba Rao and author Macha Laxmaiah (alias Krantikar)—have been arrested for distributing a book “that reportedly hurt the religious sentiments of Muslims.”
President of CFI/India, Innaiah Narisetti
The book, Crescent over the World , is a compilation of articles including submissions by Salman Rushdie and Tasleema Nasreen, along with one of the “blasphemous” cartoons published in the Danish press in 2005 (some of which were republished in Free Inquiry magazine).
From a Feb. 26 Thaindian News report:
“The arrests followed massive protests by Muslims in Khammam, around 250 km from Hyderabad. They took out a rally, demanding action against the author and those who helped him.
“Police said they seized 380 books of the first volume and 410 books of the second volume of the publication in different parts of Khammam district.”
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 03/07/2010 15:49:58
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Indian Humanists busted for book critical of Islam
