Sometimes I wonder about people

Mumbai police officers arrest a woman as she protests against the movie ‘My Name Is Khan’ outside the Fun Cinema multiplex during its release in Mumbai on Friday.

According to the New York Times, leaders of India's radical Shiv Sena political party threatened riots at showing of the film, My Name is Khan. Thousands of police officers were mobilized to protect the theaters showing the film, which were showing it to large crowds, and the demonstrations were sufficiently violent that 50 people were arrested.

Check out the review of the movie from the Times of India. It is apparently a plea for understanding among people, set in the United States and intended as a major film for world audiences.

It seems especially wrong that people would violently protest such a film because they oppose the religion of its maker and/or his efforts to overcome religious and nationalistic prejudice.