الهند: إلغاء عرض مسرحي إسلامي استجابةً للضغوط الهندوسية

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

استجابةً لضغوط الجماعات الهندوسية القومية، تقرَّر إلغاء عرض مسرحي بعنوان: "علي جيه"، يتضمن بيان أوضاع المواطنين المسلمين والهوية الإسلامية على خلفية أحداث عنف "جوجارت"، التي وقعت عام 2002 وراح ضحيتها ما يزيد عن 2000 مسلم.

وقد حقَّق العرض جماهيرية واسعة من خلال عرضه بمهرجان "أدنبره" أغسطس الماضي، ثم عرض في أكتوبر بمدينة "مومباي"؛ حيث أثار استنكار الجماعات الهندوسية، التي أكدت أن العرض قد يضايق الهندوس، ويؤدي إلى نشوب أعمال عنف طائفي وتوتر عرقي بين الجانبين؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Bowing to radical groups' demands, the live performance of an Indian play on Muslim identity featuring 2002 Gujarat riots has been facing cancellations amid fears of provoking communal violence a few weeks before general elections.

“We are being forced to kowtow to fundamentalists,” Arundhati Raja, the director of Jagriti Theater in Bangalore which was obligated to cancel the show, told The New Your Times on Monday, March 17.

“We want to stand up for the arts, but we have no support from police or the spineless government,” Raja added.

The Indian play, "Ali J", explores Muslims identity in today's India through depicting a Muslim man on death row over crimes during the Gujarat riots in 2002.

More than 2,000 Muslims were hacked and burnt to death in Gujarat in 2002 by Hindu mobs after Hindu pilgrims died in a train fire, which was first blamed on Muslims but turned accidental due to a later inquiry.

The one-hour monologue made its debut last August at the Edinburgh Fringe festival with high reviews during its three-week show.

Its first local show was in Mumbai's National Center for the Performing Arts last October.

After the success of the show in the Hindu-majority nation, the play drew ire of the conservative Hindu Janajagruti Samiti that aims to establish a Hindu nation.

The Hindu Samiti claimed that the play would hurt the feelings of Indians and may rekindle sectarian violence.

With current opposition to the play ahead of the looming elections, the mission of the play seems impossible.

“Ironically, I have offers from a Pakistani theater group to show it in Karachi, and another UK-based group too,” said Karthik Kumar, who directed the play and has the title role.

As the elections looms, Muslims' worries rise, with opinion polls showing much criticized Narendra Modi ahead of his rivals as the likely coming premier.

Tensions between Muslims and Modi, the three term chief minister of India’s Gujarat state, date back to 2002 massacre of Muslims.

Several investigations at the state and federal levels accused police of failing to protect Muslims under orders from Modi and his aides, fanning one of the worst instances of sectarian violence in India.