Emran hashmi is not able to buy a house. No , no he is not living on the streets of Mumbai, He has a home . A fairly good one. He just wants another. He has tonnes of money, he has lot of fame, he has success lapping at his feet , yet he was not allowed to buy the home that he wants. Looks like the person he wants to buy his home from is not willing to sell. The building society in which this flat exists also has some rules and procedures that Emran does not wish to comply with. But he wants the home. So he goes to town with the best strategy in contemporary India. "Muslim Persecution". He is not being sold to because he is a Muslim. Well there may be a grain of truth in it. In fact there maybe a lot of truth in it. Maybe he is a Muslim? Although there is some doubt there since he has mixed parentage, but let's grant him that. He still seems to be missing a big point here.
All everyone is concerned about is his rights. How about the rights of another hundred odd residents of the building. Do they have a say in who they will live next door to?
Let us say there is a room full of asthmatics chatting and sharing their good and bad moments together. Suddenly a chain smoker enters the room and insists on joining the discussion and stay for dinner and be invited for all their future meetings. Is this group of asthmatic people within their rights to feel trepidation at the thought of having a chain smoker in their midst? Are they within their rights to try and discourage this chain smoker? What if the smoker is named Emran. Can he turn around and say that he is being denied entry because he is a Muslim?
Almost all Jama masjids have a number of shops attached . let's say someone wants to rent or buy a shop in order to conduct a business of selling barbecued pork chops.
So he is not allowed to rent or buy, for obvious reasons. Let us say this fellow is called Sher singh. Would you say he was denied a fair chance to earn a living because he was not a Muslim? Laughable,but that is the kind of argument Emran and his supporters are making.
The other thing is his identity as a Muslim. Is this how he has defined himself so far? I thought he always projected himself as a very liberated actor. He cultivated his image as a bold lover boy, a serial kisser. He never said that people watch his movies despite his being Muslim.
Apart from that he is also a young male and lot of other things. Did he even stop to think that maybe it is one of the other identity that is the cause of his trouble ?
Then how about the seller; can he decide if he wants to sell or not, and to whom- no ?
The real issue is less houses more people. If it was otherwise such controversies would not arise.
And he should not forget that Individual rights are important but they can not be more important than collective rights.
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