Bollywood star branded Muslim 'non-believer' after Hindu festival
LUCKNOW, India (AFP) — Bollywood bad boy Salman Khan is in hot water again -- this time with some of the country's Muslim clerics.
Khan, known for playing a tough guy in his films, has been branded a "non-believer" and ordered to reaffirm his faith in Islam after participating in a festival honouring the Hindu elephant god Ganesh in Mumbai on Tuesday.
The order came from scholars at the influential Daarul-Ifta Manzare school in northern Uttar Pradesh state, which claims hundreds of thousands of followers among India's approximately 140 million Muslims.
"Be it a pauper or a king, everyone has to follow the dictates of Islam -- nobody has been given the exemption to bypass the tenants of the religion," religious scholar Nafeez Khan told AFP by telephone.
The 41-year-old actor must reaffirm his faith before an imam and two witnesses, the cleric said, describing the religious decree as "right and appropriate."
Khan was released on bail last month pending his appeal against a conviction for killing protected wildlife. He also faces charges of manslaughter after a road accident in 2002 left one person dead and four injured.
Comment:
This is one of the problems of Muslims living as a minority in India, some Muslims will do anything to fit in, but still the Hindu Fanatic parties will demand more. So actions like this attempting to integrate and gain acceptance achieve nothing except compromise ones own belief.
The Islamic scholars are correct when they say that everyone must follow the teachings of Islam regardless of social class and its a good thing that they are speaking out about such issues. It is their silence in the past about societal issues which has led to Muslims only practicing Islam inside the masjid and follwoing non-Islam in the rest of their lives.
Watch the vid below, another Muslim actor talks about Islam
I didn't even know he was a Muslim.
learn something new everyday
there's no compulsion in our faith, so how are the scholars correct? It sounds as if they are demanding he reaffirms his faith or else what, do they have any power to i dunno enforce some sort of punishment?
Why do these scholars care so much about this actor, there are plenty of other bollywood actors who are muslim also. Plenty of Indopak singers around too.
Sharuk Khan does far worse than paying homage to hindu Gods in his movies i'm sure, why not condemn that and those muslims that sit around watching bollywood movies and thus helping the industry to profit and prosper?
I don't really care about the likes of Sharuk khan this news seems insignificant in the light of more pressing issues occuring in the world right now.
not necessarily. If you download illegally they wont be profiting.
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lol
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition, burns a picture to obtain the ashes!
The no-compulsion to religion is in the context of non-muslims. I dont think it applies to someone whose already a muslim.
Dunno about what they will do... maybe pass a fatwa against him or something.
LOL. We do not condone downloading anything illegally... although in this day and age whose to say whats right and whats wrong?
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99.9% of the world population download illgally except some dont like to admit it. Can you honestly say you have never done it?
No not the gum drop buttons! – Gingy
How can 99.9% of the world population download something illegally when barely 50% of the world population has internet access?
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ok let me rephrase that 99.9% of the uk population downloads illegally. You aint answered my question.
No not the gum drop buttons! – Gingy
Actually only 62% of the UK population has internet access.
But I see what you're saying.
However that don't make it right.
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