Hindu Group Wants Kamal Haasan To Be Shot Dead; Actor Gets Support From Kollywood 

A top Akhil Bhartiya Hindu Mahasabha leader said actor Kamal Haasan, who infuriated the BJP earlier this week by claiming "Hindu terrorists" exist, should be shot dead or hanged, the Times of India reported.

"Kamal Haasan and likes of him should either be shot dead or hanged so that they learn a lesson. Any person who uses abusive language for people belonging to Hindu faith does not have the right to live on this holy land and they should get death in return of their remarks," the report quoted Pandit Ashok Sharma, the organisation's national vice-president, as saying on Friday.

Actor Arvind Swami wondered whether this wasn't what Kamal Haasan had spoken about.

"Do you think this is what he was referring to?" he wrote on Twitter.

"Extremists should never be seen to represent the faith itself, whatever that faith may be. But we cannot deny their existence," he said in a second tweet.

ToI's report also quoted Abhishek Agarwal, the Akhil Bhartiya Hindu Mahasabha's chief in Meerut, as saying all Indians should promise to "boycott all the movies which star him (Haasan) and his family members."

What Kamal Haasan Said

Kamal Haasan wrote in a Tamil magazine column that the right-wing can't "challenge anyone saying there are Hindu terrorists, because their terror has spread into their camps as well."

"Such terror activities are not going to help them in any way."

"In the past, Hindu right-wing groups would not indulge in violence. They would hold a dialogue with opposing parties on their arguments," he wrote. But these old tactics were defeated and now what they do is use muscle power. They started indulging in violence." BJP leader Vinay Katiyar said the actor was mentally "unstable." GVL Narasimha Rao, a spokesperson for the party, said he had given "this so-called nomenclature of Hindu terror with clearly an eye on Muslim vote banks."

After Kamal Haasan's remarks made headlines, another actor, Prakash Raj, tweeted "If instilling fear in the name of religion, culture, morality is not terrorising, then what is it #just asking." He didn't explicitly mention his Kollywood colleague.

To whomsoever it may concern

If abusing and manhandling young couples on the streets of my country in the name of morality is not terrorizing...

If taking law into hands and lynching people on slightest doubt of cow slaughter is not terrorizing...

It trolling with abuse, threat to silence even a slightest voice of dissent is not terrorizing...

Then what it is?

#JustAsking

Meanwhile, a Hindu religious group took out a rally in protest against Kamal Haasan’s remarks in Vizag on Sunday. They burnt the picture of the actor after taking it out in procession with a chappal garland.