Bollywood perfectionist Aamir Khan on Monday joined the uproar on the recent intolerance issue in India saying he was ‘alarmed’ by a number of incidences and his wife Kiran Rao even suggested that they should probably leave the country.
According to Indian Express, he said, “(Wife) Kiran and I have lived all our lives in India. For the first time, she said, should we move out of India? That’s a disastrous and big statement for Kiran to make to me. She fears for her child. She fears about what the atmosphere around us will be. She feels scared to open the newspapers every day. That does indicate that there is a sense of growing disquiet”.
“As an individual, as a citizen, certainly I have also been alarmed, I can’t deny it, by a number of incidents. Acts of terror are not connected to any religion. If he is a Muslim and he engaging in acts of terror, I don’t think he is following Islam. Or for that matter, even a Hindu who is engaging in an act of violence, is not following Hinduism. No religion teaches killing of innocents. When you see an act of terror or violence, instead of calling him a Christian or a Hindu or an Islamic terrorist, you should just call him terrorist and remove the religion tag from it. That’s the first mistake when we label them. It’s just a terrorist who doesn’t have a religion,” he added.
On the other hand, the ruling BJP calls the comments alarmist and unfair. “We won't let Aamir leave the country, he is safe. This kind of comment influenced by a politically motivated campaign insults those who have given so much honour to Aamir in India,” said Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, NDTV reported.
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