Anti-Hindu Kamal Haasan?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 27/03/2017

Read this article on altnews.in to see how the Financial Express published an amazing attack on Kamal Haasan by its reporter who assumed he was a Muslim. The paper then changed portions of the original article to drop gems such as "As he lives in a Hindu-majority country he has no business to comment on a mythological figure that Hindus have respect for." Followed by, "He is not only inciting enmity between the two groups but also forgetting that his own religion has instances of worst condition of women." Haasan happens to be an atheist who was born a Hindu. He had made a comment about the Mahabharata which provoked the reporter.

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