Posted on 10/24/2025 4:18:10 AM PDT by Cronos
On the evening of September 4, an illuminated signboard lit up a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood in Kanpur, an industrial town in India’s northern state
The signboard said: “I love Muhammad” – with a red heart.
It was the first time the mainly working-class residents in Kanpur’s Syed Nagar had put up such a sign as part of the decorations as they joined millions of Muslims around the world to celebrate Prophet Muhammad’s birthday.
The day, marked as Eid Milad-un-Nabi across South Asia, involves the faithful organising religious gatherings, Quran recitations, and sermons about the prophet’s life and teachings. At some places, the celebrations include mass processions, with people carrying posters to express their love and reverence for the prophet.
In Syed Nagar, however, as soon as the words glowed, a group of Hindu men swooped in, objecting to the celebration. Police were called in, and following a ruckus that lasted hours, the signboard was removed late that night.
On September 10, the police registered a first information report (FIR) against nine Muslims from Syed Nagar, including a religious scholar, and 15 unidentified people, accusing them of “disturbing communal harmony” and starting a “new tradition” that threatened public order. No arrests, however, have been made so far.
Mohit Bajpayee, a Syed Nagar resident affiliated with a Hindu group named Sri Ramnavmi Samiti, said he had no objection to the text, ‘I love Muhammad’, but to the placement of the signboard at a place used by them for a Hindu festival.
“All religions have equal rights under the constitution,” he told Al Jazeera. “But the sign was put up at a location where our Ram Navami decorations are usually displayed. Everyone has a right to follow their religion, but new traditions should not be started in new locations.”
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They key point, buried in the article is "Mohit Bajpayee, a Syed Nagar resident affiliated with a Hindu group named Sri Ramnavmi Samiti, said he had no objection to the text, ‘I love Muhammad’, but to the placement of the signboard at a place used by them for a Hindu festival."
India can do whatever the hell it wants in India. I have no idea what their laws state, but if it dings the koranimals then I’m all for it.
Also, are you sure those female looking things aren’t democrats? They sure look ugly/democrat.
Mohammed is the wrong kind of pagan deity. For one he isn’t even blue.
muslims committed one of the largest genocides in history in India.
Not much known here in the west.
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Moving to India.
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Why are they in the middle of what looks like a busy street holding up english signs?
No arrests, however, have been made so far. Mohit Bajpayee, a Syed Nagar resident affiliated with a Hindu group named Sri Ramnavmi Samiti, said he had no objection to the text, 'I love Muhammad', but to the placement of the signboard at a place used by them for a Hindu festival.
If the muzzie population of India (200 million) were a separate nation, it would be the third largest in the world. Go Modi!
Yeah I know that. My question was more about the middle of the street locale in regards to road safety.
People had better wake upp to this reality, and the only way to combat it, its to not recognize it as a religion, but rather realize that it is actually a form of governemtn, wrapped within a religion whose laws are dictated by Sharia Law. They are not separate, they come as a united entity.
How curious, and how obvious it is that this demonstration is meant for Western audiences.
Gotta crack down on Islam before it cracks down on every other religion.
They don’t care if they inconvenience others....
And they want jahannam
the thing is - the Indians and Pakistanis and Bangladeshis (and Sri lankans and Maldives and much of Nepal) are ethnically similar - a mix of “Aryan” and “Dravidian” with the earlier aboriginal peoples (tribals) and with admixtures of Tibeto-Burmese, Mon-Khmer and Austronesian people.
So whether they are Mohammedan or Hindu or Christian or Buddhist or Sikh, they have the ANI (Ancestral North Indian) and ASI (Ancestral South Indian) mix in different percentages.
The languages they speak also vary - Hindi is a 19th century language that is the exact same language as the language spoken in pakistan - Urdu. Though Urdu is written in Arabic script and Hindi in Devanagari (”India”) script.
But there are other, older Indo-European languages spoken in the Indian sub-continent —> Punjabi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Odiya, Nepali, Assamese, Kashmiri, Bhojpuri etc. and there are the Dravidian languages (a different language family): Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Tulu etc.
And to make things more interesting in the north-east you have the Tibeto-Burmese languages in India like Hruso, Bodo, Tiwa, Tripuri, Manipuri, Ladakhi.
and the Austroasiatic languages (related to Vietnamese, Cambodian etc.) - like Khasi, Munda.
ANd there is Tai-Kadai - related to the Thai and Lao languages
and the language isolate in the Andaman (these are the people who were separated from the rest of humanity for at least 40K years.
Mohammedans speak the local languages - or if they speak urdu, they intersperse it with arabic and farsi
The common language for most of India is English - or rather broken English (the funniest sign I saw there was once “Suiting, shirting and panting” outside a tailor’s shop :)
Looks like those fat faces love to eat. Lots and lots of eating.
“Everyone has a right to follow their religion, but new traditions should not be started in new locations.”
You mean like Indian temples in America.
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