Hello from your friendly neighborhood ex-Muslim Abdullah Sameer. In today’s blog post we are going to discuss how a famous painter, known as the “Picasso of India”, MF Hussain, angered a nation and had to leave his native country. His story is the best example of the intersection of religion, politics, and human rights and exemplifies how we need to stand for the right to be blasphemous. How is it that something Husain did in the 70s suddenly became a problem in the 90s? Because of “religious sentiment”. Let’s hear what happened. (more…)