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Journalist Rana Ayyub faces court action for ‘insulting Hindu deities’ (www.indiaweekly.biz)

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A COURT in Delhi has directed Delhi Police to register an FIR against journalist Rana Ayyub for allegedly making some derogatory posts in 2016-17 that included “insults to Hindu deities, spreading of anti-India sentiment and incitement of religious disharmony.”....

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

These laws have been in India since British times. Muslims themselves forced the Brutish government to censor blasphemous books after Hindi book Rangeela Rasool was published and no rebuttal to it could be written. The autgor was assassinated and the book was banned.