And what’s all this hullaballoo about “trampling over Hinduism” and “saying blasphemous things”, etc.? The girl and her parents have the most peaceful idea on how to practice their religion, as far as I’m concerned. If more people thought like them, we wouldn’t have all these idiotic, prejudicial notions about one another in the first place. Now, I’m not religious at all, but I also don’t go around telling people that they’re morons if they believe in a higher power, because I seriously don’t believe that you can be a moron for believing in something that makes you happy (unless it involves hurting another person physically or emotionally). However, if your belief kills MY freedom to live my life the way I want to, THEN you’re a moron – a terrorist, in fact. And that’s exactly what the people who are shunning Rubiya and her family are doing and ditto for the people who are making an issue about her being a Muslim and wanting to dance Bharatanatyam. They are having to be brave when there should be no issue of bravery because there should be nothing to fear in the first place. There really should be no issue there!

You people DO know that Ravi Shankar’s first wife was a Muslim, don’t you? Yeah, her father, Allauddin Khan, was Shankar’s guru and his daughter’s name was Annapurna. So, Khan’s community should have raised a big stink for naming his daughter after an avatar of goddess Durga, right? Get a clue people, and stop quoting the Vedas literally like some of the psycho Baptists here in the U.S. quote the Bible. It doesn’t prove anything and it’s scary.