Police on Sunday arrested a 21-year-old girl
A 21 year old girl..
Mumbai girl arrested for Facebook post
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#22No girl's arrested. They just made up the story to stop negative online trend related to Bal Thackeray. His death made a lot of people to start a worthless debate on facebook and twitter.
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#23Am I the only one who finds it ironic that it was the girl who got booked under "Section 295 (a) of the IPC (for hurting religious sentiments)" - hate speech laws?
Well people on HN in general wouldnt be aware of Bal Thackeray . So the irony would be lost on them .
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#24Although this girl might be arrested today, this general trend (growing accessibility to information) will show more and more people that there is a world beyond their immediate experience and what they are being told by people like Bal is false. Bal Thackeray was a bigot. He sought and exploited communal tensions and it's a shame that one can't openly criticize such a reprehensible person. Furthermore, his party Shiv Sena "operates as a network of street gangs" and is holds ideology which isn't far from the Tea Party in America.
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#25I hope that people who still think religions "make people better than they would otherwise be" are happy now.
Bal Thackeray has nothing to do with religion, he was more like a far right politician. In India there is a huge celebrity cult (people get crazy about politicians / actors / sportsmen) and Bal T's followers / goons virtually own Mumbai.
I live in India and it is becoming a police state much like China, people have been arrested just for criticizing politicians on Twitter. Anything I say online can hurt anyone so I stand a risk of being arrested if I criticize even the local politician. Also, things will not improve only get worse. In other news, I am trying hard to get out of here and its not easy.
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#26I hope that people who still think religions "make people better than they would otherwise be" are happy now.
When you generalize like that you're being narrow minded as the people you're criticizing. Instead, like Feynman, you should take what's best from religion to improve yourself, and ignore the rest. History shows the average human being is stupid, so don't be average.
Well, would you disagree with that the world would be a better place without religion in this day and age?
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#27Police on Sunday arrested a 21-year-old girl A 21 year old girl ..
Indian English treats 'girl' as equal to 'woman' in most contexts. Likewise 'boy' == 'man'. as seen in marital partners ads '41 year old boy seeks 35 year old girl ... '
(fwiw I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Indian newspapers should use the local flavor, rather than trying to conform to (say) US English)
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#28Police on Sunday arrested a 21-year-old girl A 21 year old girl ..
This site probably isn't the best place for linguistic prescriptivism.
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#29I hope that people who still think religions "make people better than they would otherwise be" are happy now.
Well, nobody said that about all religions (e.g not for "virgin sacrificing daemon worship" -- though it does sound fun), and for all people practicing them. Christianity didn't make Torquemada any good, but it worked quite well for St. Aquinas. With that said, the story doesn't have much to do with religion. The guy who funeral they said shouldn't matter was a political leader, not a priest. The guys that sued/prose…
But if there were no "religious sentiments", there will be no law. Religion looks even worse in this case: they're a politican's bitch (psychology term) and they seem to be content with that.
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#30I hope that people who still think religions "make people better than they would otherwise be" are happy now.
When you generalize like that you're being narrow minded as the people you're criticizing. Instead, like Feynman, you should take what's best from religion to improve yourself, and ignore the rest. History shows the average human being is stupid, so don't be average.
Can I take not being arrested? Because this seems to be the best thing the religions don't provide.
Also can I take religion not being shoven in my face? Because where I live (Russia) this seems to be the trend despite decades of atheist state.
The problem with religions is that you can't always opt out.