I Am Nupur Sharma

Today a friend warned me about my Facebook post saying #IsupportNupurSharma. Let us look at this whole situation:

1. Hinduism respects all religions. This is the most fundamental feature of Hinduism.

2. The practical consequence of the above point is: For Hindus, not offending others is more important than telling the truth. That is - Hindus do not tell the truth if it will offend others.

# Feature #1 is great. Feature #2 is bad - but it is also a fundamental characteristic of Hindus.

# Nupur Sharma only stated a fact. In fact, she just quoted from Islam's own scripture. But in doing so, she violated rule/feature #2 of Hindus. But she did so when she lost her temper because Islamic fundamentalists were continuously abusing Lord Shiva in that debate.

# She later apologised unconditionally for what she said. Her party also punished her by firing her from her job and suspending her from the party.

# So the matter must have ended there. But next Islamic fundamentalists started threatening to rape and kill her - and liberals were tacitly supporting these threats.

# A Hindu called Kanhaiya Lal posted in support of her - and two Islamic fundamentalists killed him.

# A Supreme Court Judge says Nupur Sharma is responsible for Kanhaiya Lal's murder.

What does all this mean? Cannot we live and speak freely in our own country? Should we live in fear that somebody will kill us just because we stated a fact - or supported someone who stated a fact? If so, then what is the point of being alive?

So I no longer 'support' Nupur Sharma - now I am Nupur Sharma.

#IamNupurSharma