There is an FIR filed against actor Kamal Haasan for his “Hindu terrorism” comments and on Thursday, the Madras High Court heard a petition for the same. Justice M.S. Ramesh posted the matter to next week for further hearing. He has directed the public prosecutor to get information from Tamil Nadu Police in connection with the actor’s statement till then. In his comments published in a local vernacular magazine, he was trying to brand “Hindus as terrorists”, advocate clerk G. Devarajan alleged.

“To make a joke of the majority Hindus’ belief and thereby attempting to decry secularism is the attempt by this actor Kamal Haasan [who wants] to spread the poison of violence against Hindus, which he should stop forthwith. Today, he says the Hindus are terrorists. It will be no wonder if the next day he calls the Christians or Muslims directly as terrorists.”, the petitioner alleged.

He added, “He should understand that no religion preaches violence but basically promotes goodwill with all other religions and also good conduct. But Kamal Haasan appears to divide the peace-loving Tamil population on the basis of religion by creating a myth that Hinduism is a religion of terrorists,” Kamal Haasan clarified that he never mentioned the word ‘terrorism’ and explained, “I don’t start with the intention of hurting Hindus,” He then said, ““I will be reduced to tears if they (family) deny me the weapon called love.”