Originally posted by: guess.wh0
She's right in the sense, that these Pakistani artists could be labelled a Gadaar, a sellout and they legitimate fears for their and their family's safety which has held them back from condemning the attacks.
But, in the same sense, every individual has a right to boycott whatever he/she wants. If an Indian wants to boycott everything Pakistani, it's their right to, there's no right or wrong, and everything Pakistani includes Artists as well.
Why can't they even generally speak out against terror. No one is asking there actors to condemn Pakistan - bashing the nation is a privilege that only Indians enjoy. But what stopped Fawad Khan for example to express grief on the lives lost in Uri? People can feel sad about Paris and tweet about random terror acts everywhere but not India. But of course Indians should still bend over backwards and entertain these peopleđ About time we had some self respect and showed the door to these ungrateful outsiders.It's another story that we have a lot of Indians who act as useful idiots and further the foreign agenda whether for money or for other purposes. Unfortunately can't show them the door!
Posting some bits from the post linked below.
http://www.mediacrooks.com/2016/09/bollywood-sleepers.html
The army will go after the terrorists. But civilians must boycott Pakis so that they carry the message back home that because of their govt and army they are not welcome in India.
We shouldn't forget that it was the duffer-son of Mahesh Bhatt that was used by David Headley eventually leading to the 26/11 attacks.
Not all in Bollywood maybe traitors and not all Pakis in India may be evil.
Fighting terrorism is all about eliminating risks as well. We cannot ask Indian citizens to leave. But we do have sleepers in Bollywood and we can definitely do without Pakis. We have no dearth of talent in India that we might miss the Pakis.
Bollywood sleepers too need to be weeded out as in other domains. Pressure matters! And when the nation speaks in one voice, organisations will have no option to act on it. We should welcome this decision of
Indian Motion Picture Association to get rid of Pakis till peace returns.
Sports and entertainment go way beyond their purposes. They also set political agenda and send political messages. Hitler wanted to prove superiority of the Whites or his Aryan race but a Black
Jesse Owens shattered his stupidity in 1936. USA boycotted the
Moscow Olympics in 1980. The then USSR (and their Easter Bloc allies) in return, boycotted the
Los Angeles Olympics in 1984.
South Africa faced a boycott for a long time over its apartheid policy. Most may not know this but India had to sacrifice a chance to win the
Davis Cup in Tennis in 1974 due to our boycott of SA. We then had leading players like Vijay and Anand Amrithraj in our Tennis team. Every country and group has a prism through which it sees its sports and entertainment. IPL in Cricket has not recruited Pak players for some time now.
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