Supporters of 'Khan'tempt

Shahrukh Khan’s supporters in India burnt the flag of the United States, yesterday, expressing their anger for the Newark Airport’s Immigration authorities for detaining and questioning him for about 2 hours, in the early morning of August 15, 2009.

Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan may be the superstar of the Hindi world or the whole of India. Or even the whole world, if you want. But that was a poor reason, and indeed a very pitiable one at that, to burn the flag of a nation. If they had shown their displeasure by marching and handing over a memorandum to the relevant authorities or representatives or by demonstrating with banners, or by other civilized ways then the world would have felt sorry for their unhappiness for the ‘abnormal’ reception given to their idol. But to go to the extent of burning the flag! This is certainly not acceptable. One can only feel contempt for this uncultured faction.

Perhaps, they had also remembered the incident of a few weeks ago when a man of stature in the form of no other than the former Indian President Abdul Kalam was frisked by personnel of USA’s Continental Airlines at New Delhi Airport. But still, to vent their anger by burning an innocent flag? This act does indeed deserves scorn.