Aamir Khan Insecurity To Live In India

In the context of growing terrorism around world and India too being a sufferer, there has been a raging debate allover on religious intolerance and insecurity to lives of people. When numbers of creative people are expressing their views of dissatisfaction by returning the awards, what is the opinion of Aamir Khan on the entire situation? 

At the eighth edition of Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards, here is Aamir Khan breaking the silence. ‘In the last six to eight months, a sense of insecurity and fear seeped so deep within society and the same is even in my family. After spending our (my wife Kiran, my children and me) whole lives in India, my wife for the first time asked me, should we move out of India? 

Just like everyone, we are scared of atmosphere around and are feared for our children. We are shivering to open the newspapers every day. As an individual and as a citizen, I am alarmed by a number of incidents. Sense of justice, electing our representatives (politicians) to rule us are two important attributes give Indians a feel of security. Whenever there is a violent act reported with innocent killings, I feel very unfortunate and immediately look towards our leaders to take a strong step to reassure the citizens that they are safe,’ Aamir Khan said.

On growing terror with Islamic State, he made some interesting remarks too. ‘Any acts of terror connected to religion cannot be encouraged. If a Muslim is engaging in terrorism, then he is for sure not following Islam. If a Hindu does the same, he is not following Hinduism. No religion in this world will teach killing of innocents. Instead of calling a Christian or a Hindu or an Islamic terrorist, we should address them only as terrorists removing the religion tag because terrorism doesn’t have a religion,’ Aamir adds.