Burning of Quran, Ramcharitmanas, vilification of Baba Bageshwar and silence on pastor Bajinder: How it’s Abrahamic supremacy at play
Op IndiaOn 21st January, a Danish-born politician named Rasmus Paludan burned a copy of the Quran in front of the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm. At the same time in India, a young Hindu religious preacher known as Baba Dhirendra Shastri of Bagheshwar Dham was at the centre of a media storm. Bangladesh, where Hindu temple desecration is daily news, called it an “act of insulting the sacred values of Muslims all over the world in the guise of freedom of expression”. This leads us to question whether or not these “intellectuals” are opposed to the burning of any and all sacred religious books based on “problematic text” or specifically against the act of burning only the Quran. On the other hand, there are hundreds if not thousands of videos from all over India depicting the likes of pastor Bajinder Singh ‘curing‘ people suffering from various diseases or ‘possessed by evil spirits’.