INDIA SUMMARIZED

Extract from " Negationism in India " by Koenraad Elst, pp 58-62: " A consequence of the negationist orientation of the Indian state's religious policy, is the readiness to ban books critical of Islam at the slightest suggestion by some mullah or Muslim politician. It is symptomatic that India was the first country to ban Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses", at the instance of Syed Shahabuddin (in exchange, with some other concessions, for his calling off a march on Ayodhya). [....Discussion about various banned books in India....] The Nehruvian establishment has no liking for free research into the contents of Islamic doctrine and history, and in spite of loud slogans about 'secularism' the administration gave in to the Muslim fanatics. None of the so-called secularist intellectuals has bothered to protest against this obscurantist act of censorship. The official motivation for this banning of meritorious books is that they have b...