Title: Protesters want
ban on Dante
Author: Azmath
Publication: The Asian
Age
Date: January 3, 2000
Bangalore: Protesters
gathered outside the New Indian Express office in Bangalore on Sunday demanded
a ban on Dante's Inferno, quoted in an article The millennium is dead...Long
live the millennium. They said the book insults Prophet Mohammed.
Speaking to The Asian
Age, Mr Anees Ali Khan, an advocate who was part of the demonstration,
said he would file a case in the high court seeking a ban on Dante's book.
"We came to know about Dante's book only after the New Indian Express published
the report. Since Dante's book speaks ill of the Holy Prophet, we want
a ban on his book," Mr Khan said.
"Most of the protesters
here do not know who Dante is and what book he has written. But we are
angry with the New Indian Express because it has carried comments objectionable
to Muslim society," Mr Khan added.
Mr Khan met city police
commissioner T. Madiyal on Sunday morning and complained to him that the
article written by Mr T.J.S. George was a deliberate attempt to hurt the
sentiment of the Muslim community. He asked the commissioner to register
a case against Mr George for spreading communal violence and hatred.
Mr Madiyal told reporters
he was examining the complaint made by Mr Khan to see whether a case could
be booked against Mr George under Section 153(a) of the Indian Penal Code,
which deals with inciting communal violence.
