Media house attacked over cartoons

[TejasMk3]

Media house attacked over cartoons
MUMBAI, Nov 30, 2015, dhns
The office of Lokmat, a prominent newspaper group, was attacked in a couple of places in Maharashtra, and copies of the Sunday edition were burnt at several places, over a derogatory image.

The article and graphics - ‘ISIS cha Paisa’ (ISIS’s money), that appeared in supplement Manthan of Lokmat, the Marathi daily, has irked the members of the Muslim community.

Meanwhile, the editor of the daily has extended immediate apology for the derogatory image with an assurance that it will take action against the guilty for the publication of image. An FIR, too was registered.

Security at all the Lokmat offices across Maharashtra has been beefed up. “We are monitoring the situation and we request the people to help us maintain peace,” a top Maharashtra Police official said.

Wow so much intolerance

 

[ganesh623]

Where is the tolerance brigade ?
Care to open your mouth and return some awards now ?

 

[ranjeet]

@The_Showstopper
What's happening? tolerant lot can't even take criticism of ISIS?

 

[cybertron]

These goons should be behind bars with hot rods blown up there a$$es.

No one has the right to take law into there hands.

 

[LaBong]

What is the cartoon which caused these loons to go rampage again?

If they are protesting against a cartoon on isis because it attacks islam as per them, aren't they proving isis represents islam.

 

[TejasMk3]

More details can be found here:
Newspaper draws piggy bank to show ISIS funding, Muslim groups attack it as pig is “unislamic”

Offices of the Marathi newspaper Lokmat witnessed angry protests on Sunday by outraged Muslims who claimed that the newspaper had insulted their faith by publishing a blasphemous picture.

Copies of the newspaper were burnt at various cities in Maharashtra and the protesting men demanded arrest of the editor and the artist who drew the illustration. A couple of offices are reported to have been attacked too, as the editor extended an immediate apology.


One of the various protests organized on Sunday against Lokmat

According to reports, such protests were held at various cities such as Malegaon, Dhule, Nandurbar, etc. in Maharashtra and a campaign – in various cities as well as on the social media – is on to boycott the newspaper.

To keep the situation in control, the police has registered cases against the editor and the writer of the article at Aurangabad, Jalna, Pune, Jalgaon, Parbhani and Yavatmal.

The Muslim groups were angry after they found an article published in the Sunday edition of the newspaper. The article explained how the ISIS – the terror group currently ruling parts of Syria and Iraq, and which claimed responsibility for the recent Paris attacks – was receiving money to fund their operations.


The “blasphemous” image (source)

The article also carried an illustration that showed symbols of various national currencies – representing international sources of funding – falling into a piggy bank, which was painted like the ISIS flag i.e. black in color with the terror group’s seal depicted in Arabic script.

Since the piggy bank is supposed to look like a pig, and pig is considered a haraam animal in Islam, the Muslim groups claimed that the illustration was blasphemous, for the ISIS seal has elements of the Islamic shahada.

Piggy bank has been historically used as a popular depiction to show banking and financial activities and it has hardly got anything to do with the actual pig or its ways, however such artistic explanations fell on deaf ears as hundreds of protestors turned up at various offices to burn copies of the newspaper, sending the staff into panic mode.

Political parties also joined in with Dhule unit chief of Samajwadi Party Minority Cell taking the lead and asking Lokmat’s resident editor Milind Kulkarni to publish an apology in the newspaper’s earliest issue. Another organization called All India Momin Conference has called for protests against the newspaper after Friday prayers in in Jalna on December 4.

Ironically, the Malegaon Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) has praised the “peaceful” protests, and expressed concern over the publication of the “blasphemous” caricature. He said that a notice would be sent to the newspaper as early as possible.

 

[Srinivas]

Where is the response from self proclaimed liberals?

 

[TejasMk3]

Where are the liberals ?

Care to open your mouth and return some awards now ?

They are too busy eating beef at parties to prove the intolerance of the majority, cant speak when mouth is full

 

[LaBong]

If they are just burning the papers and sloganeering then that's not breaking the law, is it? Although their anger is misplaced, shahada on isis flag should be far more defamatory than shahada on piggybank.

 

[ConcealCarry]

Yeah, lets talk about it you two faced indians

Media house attacked over cartoons
MUMBAI, Nov 30, 2015, dhns
The office of Lokmat, a prominent newspaper group, was attacked in a couple of places in Maharashtra, and copies of the Sunday edition were burnt at several places, over a derogatory image.
Wow so much intolerance

 

[Ice Cube]

Yeah, lets talk about it you two faced indians

 

[LaBong]

Yeah, lets talk about it you two faced indians

Yes, whataboutry is double edged sword indeed!

 

[ConcealCarry]

typical indian reaction, no valid arguments, just running on a different tangent

 

[Imran Khan]

this worth protest ? they are stupid?

 

[LaBong]

If they are just burning the papers and sloganeering then that's not breaking the law, is it? Although their anger is misplaced, shahada on isis flag should be far more defamatory than shahada on piggybank.

That being said, newspaper owes no apology to these groups.