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No basis yet to blame Tablighi: Scientists

Agroup of Indian scientists has said the available data do not support speculation that the primary blame for the continued growth of the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the country lies with the Tablighi Jamaat convention in Delhi last month.

The Indian Scientists’ Response to Covid-19 (ISRC), a group seeking to provide authentic information and bust myths about the pandemic, has expressed concern that some media outlets and politicians have suggested the primary blame lies with the Jamaat event.

Over 2,300 people from India and other countries had assembled for the Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi last month with approval from multiple government agencies.

The health ministry had earlier this month indicated that at one point, a third of India’s cases could have been linked to the Jamaat event.

The government’s statements that highlighted the Jamaat event-linked cases among the total number had triggered anti-Muslim comments, including the hashtag “coronajihad”, on social media. One website had posted that the Tablighi Jamaat event had turned into a coronavirus bomb.

“We strongly condemn any attempt to communalise the pandemic,” the ISRC said, citing the World Health Organisation’s statement not to profile cases on racial, religious or ethnic lines.

The ISRC has also cited the health ministry’s own document that says: “Do not label any community or area for the spread of Covid-19.”

While the Tablighi Jamaat had erred by not cancelling the event, the ISRC said, the central and state governments should acknowledge their administrative lapses.

This (the congregation) was a “pre-approved event and arms of the government were aware that foreigners from infected countries would be participating”, the ISRC said.

The ISRC said the government had not released data on how many tests were conducted among the attendees of this event and their contacts. “Thus, we do not know how the fraction of tests that were found to be positive in this case compares to testing on the general population,” it said.

“We call on the government to release this data.”

The actual number of people infected with the coronavirus across the country is believed to be far larger than the number confirmed so far, the ISRC said.

The effects of the Delhi event on the growth rate of the all-India numbers “may thus be significantly less” than the numbers put out by the health ministry, the ISRC said.

Medical researchers have highlighted that an Indian Council of Medical Research study, released on Thursday with evidence for community transmission of the virus in 36 districts, suggests that the infection is likely to be more widespread than has been assumed.

The ISRC has underlined that coronavirus epidemics have in general been marked by “super-spreader events” in other countries. Such super-spread events have occurred in South Korea and Italy this time.

A single patient in Punjab has led to the quarantining of 40,000 people across 20 villages in the state, the ISRC said. “Those who contract the virus in such an event or spread it unintentionally are themselves victims of the epidemic,” the ISRC said. “They must not be demonised.”

https://www.telegraphindia.com/indi...to-blame-tablighi-says-scientists/cid/1764004
 
Hate crime: Mob attacks SPO in Nuh amid rising coronavirus cases

An ex-serviceman now employed as a Special Police Officer in Nuh was allegedly attacked by a group of men who accused him of spreading coronavirus, sources said on Friday.

A mob that included the local sarpanch of a village allegedly put a chain around Saimmuddin’s neck and dragged him, wounding him grievously, his wife Samina told police in her complaint.

Saimmuddin is an SPO at Nuh Police Station.

She said in her complaint that the incident happened at noon, when he was taking routine rounds of the fields in the area to check on the harvesting that went on there.

The local sarpanch, whom identified only as Rajender, allegedly abused him with communal slurs, and accused him of trying to spread the contagion. He then asked people nearby to attack him, she said.

"They charged at him and gagged him with iron chain and dragged him on road. He fainted and somebody called my father in law. When we rushed there, a few men stopped us and tried to chase us away with sticks,” she said.

Some relatives who lived nearby took Saimmuddin to a hospital in Gurugram, she said.

Police have booked the sarpanch and eight other people, which includes the sarpanch’s nephew.

The incident comes at a time when hate crimes have been reported from several parts of the country in the back of rising cases of coronavirus, particularly after the rise in the number of infections after a religious congregation in Delhi’s Nizamuddin held last month.

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/h...po-in-nuh-amid-rising-coronavirus-cases-69312
 
Mandya: Youths who fled from checkpost scaring policemen of coronavirus caught

Mandya, Apr 11: Tahsildar and taluk bailiff of K R Pet taluk in the district has given clarification on the escaping of three men, who escaped from the checkpost at Tendekere threatening the policemen that they are Muslim youths and they have coronavirus infection and the same may spread to the checkpost personnel if they tried to catch them.

In a press release, the tahsildar said, "I visited the spot of the incident after I got the news that three youths who approached the checkpost at Tendekere near Jockey factory on April 8 at 10.45 pm in an auto rickshaw and threatened the personnel manning the checkpost and escaped.

"When I inquired about the incident with the security personnel who were manning the checkpost, they told me that the youths, when intercepted by the personnel for checking showed the home quarantine seal on their hand and said, "We are Muslim youths. We are infected with coronavirus. If you try to catch us we will kill you also by spreading this to you." Then the youths fled from the spot. I have conveyed this matter to the media accordingly.

"Later the police arrested these youths from Ballekere village near Bookanakere Hobali. They are identified as Mahesh, Abhishek, and Srinivas alias Appu. An FIR is registered against all the three.

"It has come to light during the investigation that though the youths were Hindus. They had lied to the checkpost personnel that they are Muslims with the intention of escaping from the security personnel.

"The accused had lied in order to escape from the spot and accordingly I had conveyed to the media that they were Muslim youths. There is no ulterior motive behind my statement that was given to the media on that day.

"I also request through this press release with the public of K R Pet taluk that no Muslim youths have come to spread the coronavirus disease in the taluk and this is baseless allegations and far from truth. I request the public not to panic and live in harmony with people of all faith as usual,” he stated in the press release.

https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=695219
 
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All Modi fans gone quiet in this thread. Shame on you, just look at that video above and see what effect your evil propaganda has on your streets.
 
Trust the Fascist mafia in India to turn this into a religious issue. Its the type of thing our nutty malivis used to do and today Ind has nutty fascists.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Union Minority Affairs Minister <a href="https://twitter.com/naqvimukhtar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@naqvimukhtar</a> says Madrasa teachers who are hiding students in cramped rooms are committing a ‘grave crime against humanity’ and action should be taken against them for violating lockdown norms. <a href="https://t.co/BJI3hCUKlb">https://t.co/BJI3hCUKlb</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/IndiaToday?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IndiaToday</a> follow-up.</p>— Rahul Kanwal (@rahulkanwal) <a href="https://twitter.com/rahulkanwal/status/1248955863005401089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Union Minority Affairs Minister <a href="https://twitter.com/naqvimukhtar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@naqvimukhtar</a> says Madrasa teachers who are hiding students in cramped rooms are committing a ‘grave crime against humanity’ and action should be taken against them for violating lockdown norms. <a href="https://t.co/BJI3hCUKlb">https://t.co/BJI3hCUKlb</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/IndiaToday?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IndiaToday</a> follow-up.</p>— Rahul Kanwal (@rahulkanwal) <a href="https://twitter.com/rahulkanwal/status/1248955863005401089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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They shouldnt but how is it any different if they were at home in a small rooms with 3 generations in the same house
 
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They shouldnt but how is it any different if they were at home in a small rooms with 3 generations in the same house
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I dont think its a fair comparison because family members are your relatives. They are someone whom you trust and spend years together. If someone in family is unwell or sick, one expect them to obey govt orders of self isolation and distance themselves from loved ones. Its totally different when you share room with strangers, especially young students.
 
COVID-19 rumours linked to 3 attacks in Delhi, Gurgaon

A 22-year-old who returned from a Tablighi Jamaat congregation was beaten up in Outer Delhi’s Harewali village, a family was attacked for making a video of Sunday’s ‘diya jalao’ event in Gurgaon’s Manohar Colony, and four men fired outside a mosque in Gurgaon’s Dhankot village in three separate incidents of violence linked to coronavirus rumours over the weekend.

On Sunday afternoon, a 22-year-old man who returned from Bhopal after attending a Tablighi Jamaat gathering was beaten up by locals in Outer Delhi’s Harewali village. A video of the incident shows the man, Dilshad Ali, being thrashed by a mob that accuses him of being a part of a conspiracy to spread coronavirus.

An FIR has been registered and three men have been arrested. Police also filed an FIR against Dilshad — for allegedly violating CrPC Section 144. Additional PRO (Delhi Police) Anil Mittal said they intervened following a call from Dilshad’s father. “We have arrested three men — Naveen Kumar (30), Prashant Kumar (26) and Pramod Kumar (30).”

Dilshad’s uncle Chaudhary Akram alleged: “He was supposed to return from Bhopal on April 4 but got stuck due to the lockdown. Eventually, he and nine others returned in a truck… In Northwest Delhi, he was caught by police, but was let go after a medical examination.”

Akram alleged Ali returned home Sunday afternoon, and soon afterwards locals asked him to accompany them for some work. “They took him to an isolated spot and started beating him. His father came to know through neighbours,” said Akram.

The video shows locals asking Dilshad about his “plans to spread coronavirus”. “If you tell us the truth, we will leave you and hand you over to police. We know what the men who were caught from Nizamuddin had planned earlier. Wasn’t that your plan too?” the men can be seen asking.

In Gurgaon’s Manohar Colony Sunday evening, 20-year-old Aatif Warsi and his family came under attack after a crowd objected to him recording a video of Sunday’s ‘diya jalao’ event at 9 pm. Warsi was standing in his balcony when 20-25 men took out a procession, flashing phone torches.

When members of the procession noticed him and his brothers, they told them to stop making videos. Some from the group allegedly headed to the family’s second-storey home, abusing them and asking them to leave the neighbourhood.

One of the men eventually went to the terrace of a building next to Warsi’s home. “Some then jumped over the balcony and entered our home. They attacked me and my cousin with a brick,” alleged Warsi. Around 10 pm, Warsi’s father Aslam called police. The accused, Deepak Kumar, Ramesh Kumar, Ramsingh, Suraj Prakash, Rajendra Kumar and Mahesh Kumar, were arrested Monday. “The accused have confessed,” said Gurgaon Police PRO Subhash Boken.

Aslam said, “We have lived in this area ever since we came here in 2009. Police have reassured us that nothing like this will happen again, and neighbours have also been apologising. We will not leave.”

On Monday, a day after shots were fired outside a mosque in Gurgaon’s Dhankot village, police arrested four people who, during questioning, claimed they wanted to “check if anyone infected with the coronavirus was hiding inside”. Police identified the accused as Vinod (40), a property dealer; Harkesh (18), who works as a cook at his residence; Pawan (41), a dairy owner; and Aalam Khan (39), a ragpicker. “The four were talking about coronavirus Saturday and about the people evacuated from Markaz Nizamuddin,” said Boken.

“A few days ago, they also heard on social media that six people were found at the mosque in Dhankot. They decided to go there and check ,” he said. No such incident had been reported from the mosque.“They reached the masjid and tried to open the gate. When they couldn’t, Vinod fired a shot towards the masjid and a second in another direction,” said Boken.

https://indianexpress.com/article/c...linked-to-3-attacks-in-delhi-gurgaon-6350696/
 
Rajdeep said:
I dont think its a fair comparison because family members are your relatives. They are someone whom you trust and spend years together. If someone in family is unwell or sick, one expect them to obey govt orders of self isolation and distance themselves from loved ones. Its totally different when you share room with strangers, especially young students.
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Couped in a small space is the same wherever it is. All communities are vulnerable and they should all obey the advice but you know as well as I, that this is an organised campaign to create a blame game to hide the fact that Modi didn't think through the lockdown. Be careful what you wish for
 
NEW DELHI — After India’s health ministry repeatedly blamed an Islamic seminary for spreading the coronavirus — and governing party officials spoke of “human bombs” and “corona jihad” — a spree of anti-Muslim attacks has broken out across the country.

Young Muslim men who were passing out food to the poor were assaulted with cricket bats. Other Muslims have been beaten up, nearly lynched, run out of their neighborhoods or attacked in mosques, branded as virus spreaders. In Punjab State, loudspeakers at Sikh temples broadcast messages telling people not to buy milk from Muslim dairy farmers because it was infected with coronavirus.

Hateful messages have bloomed online. And a wave of apparently fake videos has popped up telling Muslims not to wear masks, not to practice social distancing, not to worry about the virus at all, as if the makers of the videos wanted Muslims to get sick.

In a global pandemic, there is always the hunt for blame. President Trump has done it, insisting for a time on calling the coronavirus a “Chinese virus.’’ All over the world people are pointing fingers, driven by their fears and anxieties to go after The Other.

Here in India, no other group has been demonized more than the country’s 200 million Muslims, minorities in a Hindu-dominated land of 1.3 billion people.

From the crackdown on Kashmir, a Muslim majority area, to a new citizenship law that blatantly discriminates against Muslims, this past year has been one low point after another for Indian Muslims living under an increasingly bold Hindu nationalist government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and propelled by majoritarian policies.

In this case, what’s making things worse is that there’s an element of truth behind the government’s claims. A single Muslim religious movement has been identified as being responsible for a large share of India’s 8,000-plus coronavirus cases. Indian officials estimated last week that more than a third of the country’s cases were connected to the group, Tablighi Jamaat, which held a huge gathering of preachers in India in March. Similar meetings in Malaysia and Pakistan also led to outbreaks.

“The government was compelled to call out this congregation,” said Vikas Swarup, a senior official at India’s foreign ministry.

He said that the gathering in March “had a significant impact on the containment methods” but denied that the government’s frequent blaming of the group had “anything to do with a particular community.”

Tablighi Jamaat is a multinational Muslim missionary movement. A tall, white, modern building towering over the Nizamuddin West neighborhood of Delhi serves its global headquarters. The group is one of the world’s largest faith-based organizations, with tens of millions of members.

The Indian government has been racing to track down anyone from Tablighi’s seminary and quarantine congregants. Masked police officers have sealed the headquarters on all sides; the other morning, they patrolled the area with their fingers on the triggers of assault rifles.

The neighborhood resembles one near a bus depot or a port; the seminary was the center of the economy, and all around it stand money changers, guesthouses, travel agencies and gift shops, catering to the Muslim missionaries who would flow through here.

The virus and the new wave of hatred have changed everything. Mohammed Haider, who runs a milk stall, one of the few businesses allowed to stay open under India’s coronavirus lockdown, said, “Fear is staring at us, from everywhere.’’

“People need only a small reason to beat us or to lynch us,’’ he said. “Because of corona.’’

Muslim leaders are afraid. They see the intensifying attacks against Muslims and remember what happened in February, when Hindu mobs rampaged in a working-class neighborhood in Delhi, killing dozens, and the police mostly stood aside — or sometimes even helped the Hindu mobs. In many villages now, Muslim traders are barred from entering simply because of their faith.

“The government should not have played the blame game,” said Khalid Rasheed, the chairman of Islamic Center of India. “If you present the cases based on somebody’s religion in your media briefings,’’ he said, “it creates a big divide.”

“Coronavirus may die,” he added, “but the virus of communal disharmony will be hard to kill when this is over.”

Tahir Iqbal, a recent university graduate from Kashmir, was among the 4,000 or so gathered at the Tablighi Jamaat headquarters in early March for missionary training. He said people slept, ate and prayed in close quarters, with little fear of the coronavirus. “We didn’t take it seriously at the time,” he said.

On March 16, the Delhi government banned gatherings of more than 50 people. Several days later, Mr. Modi announced a nationwide lockdown.

But instead of dispersing, more than 1,000 people stayed put at the center. During a March 19 sermon, Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, a Tablighi Jamaat leader, told followers that coronavirus was “God’s punishment’’ and not to fear it.

About a week later, health inspectors found around 1,300 people still sheltering at the center without masks or other protective gear. Many Muslim leaders criticized the group’s center for not closing down.

But by that point, hundreds of congregants had already left. They wended their way across India by car, bus, train and plane, spreading the coronavirus to more than half of India’s states, from beach towns in the Andaman Islands to the hot, farming cities in the country’s northern plains.

On March 31, the Delhi authorities filed a criminal case against Maulana Kandhalvi for “deliberately, willfully, negligently and malignantly” putting the public’s health at risk. Tablighi Jamaat’s center was sealed. The maulana, a title for a Muslim scholar, disappeared.

Indian authorities have been tightening the lockdown on hot spots across the country, shutting down all movement in areas where coronavirus cases have been detected. Though the nationwide total remains relatively low, many fear the highly contagious virus could rip through crowded urban areas, overwhelming India’s already beleaguered public hospitals.

Indian authorities have used cellphone data to track Tablighi Jamaat congregants and intercepted Malaysian missionaries at an airport before they could board an evacuation flight out of India.

At a public briefing last week, Lav Agarwal, a health ministry spokesman, said that the number of days it would have taken India’s coronavirus cases to double would have been 7.4 — not the more alarming 4.1 days it hit this past week — had the gathering not happened.

Since then, more than 25,000 people who came in contact with Tablighi members have been quarantined. Some nurses have complained that Tablighi members put in isolation wards acted lewdly. One Muslim man who tested positive for coronavirus slit his throat in a central Indian hospital on Saturday.

Some Hindu nationalist politicians and their supporters seized on the situation, eagerly piling on the anti-Muslim sentiments that have been building in recent years under Mr. Modi’s government.

Raj Thackeray, the leader of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, a far-right nationalist party, told local news outlets that Tablighi Jamaat members “should be shot.”

Rajeev Bindal, a leader within Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, said Tablighi members were moving through the population “like human bombs.”

In the village of Harewali, near Delhi, a mob beat Mehboob Ali, a young Muslim man, for attending Tablighi Jamaat events, and filmed the beating.

“Tell us your plan!” someone shouts in the video. “Was your plan to spread corona?”

Mr. Ali, bloodied and crouching in a field, shakes his head.

Sensing the backlash against Muslims, India’s health ministry has stopped blaming Tablighi Jamaat at public briefings.

“Certain communities and areas are being labeled purely based on false reports,” the health ministry said in a statement a few days ago. “There is an urgent need to counter such prejudices.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/world/asia/india-coronavirus-muslims-bigotry.html
 
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Indian media is waging a holy war against Muslims. Rahul Kanwal is just one of its hyenas

ctivist Kavita Krishnan’s video tirade against India Today channel’s news editor Rahul Kanwal for his coronavirus show titled ‘Madrasa Hotspots’ is spot on. The one thing Indian media is not doing is journalism. In fact, very few people are doing journalism today. Channels from Zee News, Aaj Tak to Network18 like to add the word ‘jihad’ to everything. Corona jihad or zameen jihad, love jihad, arthik jihad, and whatnot. But if anyone is waging a holy war today, it is Indian media’s jihad against Indian Muslims and Islam.

The year 2014 was a watershed moment in India. Not just because Narendra Modi became the prime minister with an absolute majority but because the Indian media, as it functioned until then, metamorphosed from a pigeon — a messenger of truth and facts — to a hyena, one that serves its own interest fuelled by an insatiable greed that drives it to devour its prey alive, sometimes ripping it apart, while it sniggers. Today’s news media, especially the prime time debates, is brutal, almost barbaric, with little to no regard for ethics and morality.

Journalism is now endangered and what’s masquerading in its name is business — with open display of bigotry and hate against Muslims and other minorities. It not only builds its viewership base by hook or crook to more advertising money but it also doubles up as a PR firm, serving the interest of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), to show it as the saviour of India.

And what’s the flavour of the season in the Indian media’s bid to do the bidding for the BJP? An extra large scoop of Islamophobia with some sprinkling on top — Tablighi Jamaat conspiracy theories (from spitting to ********), a dash of anti-nationalism reserved for Muslims who are called more Pakistani than Indian, a huge dollop of ISIS connection (especially in the land of Malayalis), and a generous serving of demonisation through constant use of rhetorics like jihad, halala, triple talaq, beef eaters, and anything that a devious mind can conjure (‘Muslims in India are deliberately spreading the coronavirus’).

Of course not every media house is like this. Some try to be trailblazers of truth and investigation. But media is a capital intensive industry. It needs money, especially to compete with the dazzling HD-quality channels or publications with subscribers in millions. Besides, the government can cut it off anytime or withhold advertisements to make it go bankrupt. It’s really a choice between Scylla and Charybdis.

Govt encroachment
Let’s compare this to the past when things were not so bleak. Except during the Emergency, Doordarshan and All India Radio (AIR) used to air news without any opinion. In fact, Section 12 (2) (b) of the Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Act, 1990 makes the duty of public broadcaster very clear: to safeguard “the citizen’s right to be informed freely, truthfully and objectively on all matters of public interest… and presenting a fair and balanced flow of information including contrasting views without advocating any opinion or ideology of its own.”

Although dubbed as the central government’s mouthpiece, Doordarshan’s DD National (formerly DD1) was not a perception changer like today’s news channels that primarily depend on sensationalised ‘breaking news’ with a lot of confirmation bias.

But Doordarshan has not been without the blemish either. It edited out portions of Narendra Modi’s pre-election interview in 2014 and then telecast it in full when Modi took umbrage at it. But the broadcaster refused to telecast then Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar’s pre-recorded 2017 Independence Day speech even after the CPM leader called its act “undemocratic, authoritarian” and “also (an) expression of intolerance”.

Now, Doordarshan appears to be buckling completely under pressure, with the Narendra Modi government considering dissolving Prasar Bharti and converting both DD National and AIR into public sector units to keep the majority stake with itself.

When print publication dominated the media sphere, things were still authentic because reportage was given more weightage than opinion. But that also died with the emergence of social media. Today, anyone with a camera phone is a journalist and everyone has a ‘journalistic’ opinion to air. A video is more easily consumable than an 800-word article. Full-page political ads and increase in the number of classified pages are a sign of how print media’s independence has taken a hit in the past six years during which a large number of people have moved to social media that Modi and his BJP have used like a magic wand.

The Muslim angle
While it’s here on social media that bigotry against Muslims is more pronounced, it takes inspiration, and content, from the news channels that engage in hate 24X7. So, the question remains, why does India media detests Muslims so much? Why don’t news anchors like Sudhir Chaudhary, Arnab Goswami, Deepak Chaurasia, Amish Devgan, Anjana Om Kashyap, Rohit Sardana and their types ever get tired of demonising Muslims day in and day out? Is it that majority Hindus have always hated Muslims and after 9/11, the advent of Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, ISIS, and 2014, it just became the new normal to do so publicly? Or has the persistent propaganda to reinforce fanatic beliefs about Muslims as being violent and irrational led majority Hindus to inculcate them in their daily lives, even if they have personally never experienced any of those propagated beliefs?

The Tablighi Jamaat fiasco is a good example. Like a herd of cattle that cannot think on its own, the 1500-odd men who were stuck at Delhi’s Nizamuddin Markaz continued to stay there while their spiritual shepherd — Maulana Saad — didn’t think it necessary to empty the premises despite the fear of the coronavirus. But were they the only religious groups who did this? No.

The Tablighi Jamaat congregated between 13 and 15 March, but temples like Siddhivinayak and Mahakaleshwar were not closed until 16 March. Shirdi Saibaba Mandir and Shani Shingnapur Temple were closed only on 17 March, Vaishno Devi on 18 March, and the Kashi Vishwanath Temple was operating until 20 March — a day after Prime Minister Modi had addressed the nation and called for ‘social distancing’. Some news channels pointed these anomalies out but for the most part, the narrative to demonise and blame the entire Muslim community — and not only the Tablighi organisers — played on a loop. What did it lead to? Muslims began to be targeted, assaulted, beaten up, abused on streets by nameless goons and the police without any action against anyone. The same media that helped propagate it conveniently ignored all the attacks on Muslims.

Is this new?
Fake news has been used rather assiduously in India to create a sense of unity within the majority. A feeling of unity to hate a common enemy and defeat that enemy by voting a Hindu nationalist political party that will safeguard their rights.

The ‘us vs them’ elixir has always worked. And so a premier liberal institute like Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) can be projected as the land of condoms and ‘anti-nationals’. Or media can blithely express entitlement over Ayodhya by crooning: “janmabhoomi humari, Ram humare, Masjidwale kahaan se padhare” (The land is ours, Ram is Ours, Why have the people of the mosque arrived here). Or that the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) were being funded by foreign entities. Why isn’t anyone talking about the gaumutra and gobar parties thrown by superstitious Hindus to fight the coronavirus? Why aren’t these unscientific and unhygienic practices being called out? Why isn’t anyone outraged by pilgrims stuck in gurdwaras and temples? Because no one is bothered by “non-Muslim” folks doing anything wrong.

From the looks of it, Indian media is winning the war being waged against Muslims and Islam. Have you read the news? A “Muslim” man — Dilshad Ali — has been lynched. Dilshad, badly beaten up by goons over accusations that he had plans to deliberately spread the coronavirus, is alive. But since he survived the brutal attack and didn’t join Mohammed Ahlaq and Junaid Khan and Pehlu Khan among others, there’s nothing to feel outraged about what’s going on.
 
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So these hate preachers have now realized this? However the damage has already been done.
 
Hindutva should concede Muslim Population (15% of total) to Pakistan. And with it concede 15% of everything, including land, resources, infrastructure.
I don't mind the deal.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Folks trying to suggest the story Prabhjit Singh did for <a href="https://twitter.com/thewire_in?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thewire_in</a> on the harassment of Gujjars in Hoshiarpur, Punjab is "fake news", please see the videos we have posted of lathi wielding folks in this story! This was shot with actors in a studio?! <a href="https://t.co/Lmw85vmZoM">https://t.co/Lmw85vmZoM</a> 1/8</p>— Siddharth (@svaradarajan) <a href="https://twitter.com/svaradarajan/status/1249647092630343681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The TOI reporter <a href="https://twitter.com/ipsinghTOI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ipsinghTOI</a> carried a similar report. He quotes Hoshiarpur deputy commissioner Apneet Riyait warning that admin would take tough action against those discriminating on the basis of religion. <a href="https://t.co/HvpVxSKmve">https://t.co/HvpVxSKmve</a> 3/8</p>— Siddharth (@svaradarajan) <a href="https://twitter.com/svaradarajan/status/1249647096866594818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In Prabhjit's 2nd story, DC Riyait is quoted acknowledging the problem. A cop now saying 'fake news' is also quoted—“People were having apprehensions and did not allow the Gujjars to sell their milk”. But he had no answer for why a case was not filed! <a href="https://t.co/Pi1SC9y0CV">https://t.co/Pi1SC9y0CV</a> 5/8</p>— Siddharth (@svaradarajan) <a href="https://twitter.com/svaradarajan/status/1249647101207646210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">They said they are now able to sell their milk to the state cooperative, and some families have started buying their milk. But sadly, many still do not. Prabhjit will be filing this story in <a href="https://twitter.com/thewire_in?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thewire_in</a> soon. 7/8</p>— Siddharth (@svaradarajan) <a href="https://twitter.com/svaradarajan/status/1249647105146159104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bottom line: Villagers in certain Hoshiarpur areas who fell prey to communal propaganda DID physically prevent Gujjars from selling milk. There was nothing "fake" about the news. If only those crying "fake" helped fight actual fakery, the media and cops jobs would be easier. 8/8</p>— Siddharth (@svaradarajan) <a href="https://twitter.com/svaradarajan/status/1249647107415273472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A video of a mock drill by UP's Ayodhya police has been falsely shared as cops apprehending a group of Muslim men during coronavirus lockdown. The message terms the men "corona Jihadis". <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AltNewsFactCheck?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AltNewsFactCheck</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/HereisKinjal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HereisKinjal</a> <a href="https://t.co/KCzMORIVA8">https://t.co/KCzMORIVA8</a></p>— Pratik Sinha (@free_thinker) <a href="https://twitter.com/free_thinker/status/1249597036544118789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Disgraceful. And the Onus Solely lies on the many hatemongering NEWS CHANNELS ... <br>Shameful ... <a href="https://t.co/86Edlo6k7n">https://t.co/86Edlo6k7n</a></p>— Sakshi Joshi (@sakshijoshii) <a href="https://twitter.com/sakshijoshii/status/1249034996645392384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Delhi: Man who thrashed vegetable vendor over ID card arrested

Two days after the video of a vegetable seller being beaten up with a stick by a man who asks for his ID surfaced online, Delhi Police tracked down the accused and arrested him. The accused, Praveen Babbar, is a resident of southeast Delhi’s Badarpur Extension and runs a tour and travel business.

In the video, Babbar can be seen hitting the vegetable seller with a stick. After that, he asks for his ID, starts hitting and abusing him. “…tum logo ne jihad macha diya hai,” he can be heard saying.

DCP (southeast) RP Meena said that a case has been registered at Badarpur police station under IPC sections 153 (provocation with intent to cause riot), 355 ( assault or criminal force with intent to dishonour person), 298 (uttering, words, etc., with deliberate intent to wound the religious feelings of any person) and 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt).

The police tracked down Babbar after it received a message on Twitter from the Cyber Cell. Meena said, “A motorcycle can bee seen in the video and the number plate is visible. It was traced to a resident of Molarband called Sudhanshu. He said that incident took place at Tajpur Road in Badarpur Extension and identified the accused as Babbar.”

Babbar was tracked down on Sunday, and so was the victim, who told police that the “incident took place on April 10 around 1.30 pm at Tajpur Road where he was beaten with a stick and abused by Babbar.”

Meena said that the victim — a daily wager, who was helping his brother sell vegetables — was traced with the help of local intelligence. A police officer said, “It was assumed that the vegetable seller lived near the locality only, so we found him by speaking to our local sources.”

Meena said that during the inquiry, Babbar said that “on the day of the incident there were 10 vegetable sellers and their carts at the site and he asked the seller to move from there as a lockdown had been enforced.” Meena said that Babbar claimed that “the victim didn’t move, which angered him and he beat up the victim.”

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">To expose wrongs of those who commit a crime (bribing police, lying, hiding children, avoiding check-ups) is not same as ‘waging a war against a religion.’ To conflate shows your bias. All crimes need to be called out. Strongly. Mollycoddling a wrong is the greatest disservice.</p>— Rahul Kanwal (@rahulkanwal) <a href="https://twitter.com/rahulkanwal/status/1249562082304917504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Coronavirus conspiracy theories targeting Muslims spread in India

Attacks and boycotts escalate amid false claims that Muslim group to blame for epidemic

The men who beat Mehboob Ali did so without mercy. Dragging him to a field in the village of Harewali, on the fringes of north-west Delhi, the group hit him with sticks and shoes until he bled from his nose and ears. Ali was a Muslim, recently returned home from a religious gathering, and the Hindu mob was quite certain he was part of a so-called Islamic conspiracy to spread coronavirus to Hindus nationwide. His attackers believed the devout 22-year-old must be punished before he carried out “corona jihad”.

The allegations were entirely false, but according to video footage and his family, the men who beat Ali on 5 April were in little doubt of his guilt, demanding: “Tell us who else is behind this conspiracy.” Ali was then taken to a nearby Hindu temple and told to renounce Islam and convert to Hinduism before they would allow him to go to hospital.

Five days after the attack Ali’s family was still in fear of also being accused of spreading the virus. “If we file a police case, the Hindus will not let us live in the village,” said one family member, who asked not to be named. Police confirmed that due to his attendance at a Muslim convention in Bhopal a few weeks back, Ali was being held in the isolation ward of Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan hospital in Delhi as a “corona suspect”, though he had no symptoms.

The attack on Ali is symptomatic of the growing demonisation of India’s Muslim community, who are being accused, without any basis, of conducting a malevolent campaign to spread Covid-19 to the Hindu majority.

Already a minority under attack – it is just weeks since Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in religious riots in Delhi – Muslims have now seen their businesses across India boycotted, volunteers distributing rations called “coronavirus terrorists”, and others accused of spitting in food and infecting water supplies with the virus. Posters have appeared barring Muslims from entering certain neighbourhoods in states as far apart as Delhi, Karnataka, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh.

The troubles began when the gathering of an Islamic missionary organisation, Tablighi Jamaat, held in mid-March in the south Delhi neighbourhood of Nizamuddin, was singled out by police and government as being responsible for the spread of coronavirus across India. The convention, which had been given the go-ahead by the Delhi authorities, was attended by about 8,000 people, including hundreds of foreigners. It soon became apparent that many at the convention had unknowingly picked up Covid-19 and brought it back to towns and villages across India.

Across the country, police were ordered to round up anyone associated with the organisation. So far, more than 27,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their contacts have been quarantined in about 15 states. In Uttar Pradesh, the police offered up to 10,000 rupees (£105) for information on anyone who had attended the gathering.

In a statement this week, the Indian Scientists’ Response to Covid-19 group said “the available data does not support the speculation” that the blame for the coronavirus epidemic in India lies mainly with Tablighi Jamaat. The scientists emphasised that while testing for coronavirus is extremely low across India, a disproportionate number have been of members of Tablighi Jamaat, as per a government order, therefore heavily skewing the figures.

Yet the test results were swiftly seized upon by members of the ruling ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), who claimed Tablighi Jamaat members had intended to infect millions as part of an Islamic conspiracy and were carrying out “corona terrorism”.

Senior BJP leaders accused Tablighi Jamaat of carrying out a “Talibani crime”, described their members as “human bombs, but in the guise of coronavirus patients”, and called for Tablighi Jamaat leaders to be both hanged and shot. Kapil Mishra, a local BJP leader notorious for hate speeches, tweeted: “Tablighi Jamaat people have begun spitting on the doctors and other health workers. It’s clear, their aim is to infect as many people as possible with coronavirus and kill them.”

Though quickly debunked, the rumours of Tablighi Jamaat members refusing to go into quarantine, assaulting hospital staff and throwing bottles of urine at Hindus quickly spread.

Hashtags such as “coronaJihad”, “CoronaTerrorism” and “CoronaBombsTablighi” began to trend on Twitter in India. Mainstream Indian media repeatedly asserted that Tablighi Jamaat members were coronavirus “superspreaders”.

Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, chairman of the Delhi Minorities Commission, said that while Tablighi Jamaat had been shortsighted in holding the convention, there were “dozens of examples of government, political parties and other religious groups who also flouted the coronavirus restrictions and gathered in large numbers”.

He added: “But the whole focus is being directed only on Muslims. In the past few days, we have noted a new wave of attacks on Muslims across the country. There is talk of social boycott of Muslims, harassment of Muslims by Hindutva groups and Muslims are even being harassed by police in various areas.”

There has been a concentration of attacks against Muslims in Karnataka, where a BJP MP, Anant Kumar Hegde, has denounced Tablighi Jamaat as terrorists. Shortly after, an audio clip began to be shared widely over WhatsApp, urging people not to allow Muslim fruit and vegetable sellers into their areas, claiming they were spreading the virus through their produce.

Sayed Tabrez, 23, and his mother, Zareen Taj, 39, were among seven Muslim volunteers who were assaulted by a gang of local BJP members on 4 and 6 April, as they tried to distribute food to impoverished people in the Marathahalli and Dasarahalli districts of Karnataka.

“Some 20 local BJP members came on motorbikes and started shouting at us, saying, ‘You are not allowed to give out rations – you are Muslims so you all are terrorists spreading the disease. We know you are spitting in the rations and have come from Tablighi Jamaat to spread the virus’,” said Tabrez. Two days later, about 25 local BJP members followed them in vehicles before attacking Tabrez, his mother and the other volunteers with bats. Police have since arrested two people.

It is not an isolated incident. Manohar Elavarthy of the NGO Swaraj Abhiyan, which has been distributing lockdown rations, said dozens of attacks had been carried out against their Muslim volunteers in the past few days, including some by police.

In Mangalore this week, posters started appearing that said Muslims were no longer allowed in certain neighbourhoods. “No Muslim trader will be allowed access to our hometown until the coronavirus is completely gone,” read a sign in Alape. In the Hindu-dominated village of Ankanahalli, a video seen by the Guardian shows Mahesh, the village panchayat president, issuing a warning that if any Hindu in the village is caught fraternising with a Muslim “you will be fined 500 to 1,000 rupees”.

The hijacking of coronavirus as an excuse for discrimination comes after a growing state-sponsored campaign to turn Muslims into second-class citizens in India, as part of the BJP’s agenda of Hindu nationalism. Attacks on Muslims have become commonplace and the recent citizenship amendment act, passed by the BJP in December, prompted millions to take to the streets in protest, saying it discriminated against Muslims.

The situation got so bad last week that it prompted Equality Labs, a US-based south Asian human rights organisation researching Islamophobic hate speech, to release a statement urging the World Health Organization to “issue further guidelines against Covid-19 hate speech and disconnect it to religious communities”.

“Just weeks after the Delhi pogrom where hundreds of Muslim houses and shops were vandalised, an uptick in misinformation and harmful communal language are leading to violence,” said Equality Labs’ executive director, Thenmozhi Soundararajan. “The threat of another pogrom still looms.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...cy-theories-targeting-muslims-spread-in-india
 
Uzi said:
Attacks and boycotts escalate amid false claims that Muslim group to blame for epidemic

The men who beat Mehboob Ali did so without mercy. Dragging him to a field in the village of Harewali, on the fringes of north-west Delhi, the group hit him with sticks and shoes until he bled from his nose and ears. Ali was a Muslim, recently returned home from a religious gathering, and the Hindu mob was quite certain he was part of a so-called Islamic conspiracy to spread coronavirus to Hindus nationwide. His attackers believed the devout 22-year-old must be punished before he carried out “corona jihad”.

The allegations were entirely false, but according to video footage and his family, the men who beat Ali on 5 April were in little doubt of his guilt, demanding: “Tell us who else is behind this conspiracy.” Ali was then taken to a nearby Hindu temple and told to renounce Islam and convert to Hinduism before they would allow him to go to hospital.

Five days after the attack Ali’s family was still in fear of also being accused of spreading the virus. “If we file a police case, the Hindus will not let us live in the village,” said one family member, who asked not to be named. Police confirmed that due to his attendance at a Muslim convention in Bhopal a few weeks back, Ali was being held in the isolation ward of Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan hospital in Delhi as a “corona suspect”, though he had no symptoms.

The attack on Ali is symptomatic of the growing demonisation of India’s Muslim community, who are being accused, without any basis, of conducting a malevolent campaign to spread Covid-19 to the Hindu majority.

Already a minority under attack – it is just weeks since Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in religious riots in Delhi – Muslims have now seen their businesses across India boycotted, volunteers distributing rations called “coronavirus terrorists”, and others accused of spitting in food and infecting water supplies with the virus. Posters have appeared barring Muslims from entering certain neighbourhoods in states as far apart as Delhi, Karnataka, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh.

The troubles began when the gathering of an Islamic missionary organisation, Tablighi Jamaat, held in mid-March in the south Delhi neighbourhood of Nizamuddin, was singled out by police and government as being responsible for the spread of coronavirus across India. The convention, which had been given the go-ahead by the Delhi authorities, was attended by about 8,000 people, including hundreds of foreigners. It soon became apparent that many at the convention had unknowingly picked up Covid-19 and brought it back to towns and villages across India.

Across the country, police were ordered to round up anyone associated with the organisation. So far, more than 27,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their contacts have been quarantined in about 15 states. In Uttar Pradesh, the police offered up to 10,000 rupees (£105) for information on anyone who had attended the gathering.

In a statement this week, the Indian Scientists’ Response to Covid-19 group said “the available data does not support the speculation” that the blame for the coronavirus epidemic in India lies mainly with Tablighi Jamaat. The scientists emphasised that while testing for coronavirus is extremely low across India, a disproportionate number have been of members of Tablighi Jamaat, as per a government order, therefore heavily skewing the figures.

Yet the test results were swiftly seized upon by members of the ruling ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), who claimed Tablighi Jamaat members had intended to infect millions as part of an Islamic conspiracy and were carrying out “corona terrorism”.

Senior BJP leaders accused Tablighi Jamaat of carrying out a “Talibani crime”, described their members as “human bombs, but in the guise of coronavirus patients”, and called for Tablighi Jamaat leaders to be both hanged and shot. Kapil Mishra, a local BJP leader notorious for hate speeches, tweeted: “Tablighi Jamaat people have begun spitting on the doctors and other health workers. It’s clear, their aim is to infect as many people as possible with coronavirus and kill them.”

Though quickly debunked, the rumours of Tablighi Jamaat members refusing to go into quarantine, assaulting hospital staff and throwing bottles of urine at Hindus quickly spread.

Hashtags such as “coronaJihad”, “CoronaTerrorism” and “CoronaBombsTablighi” began to trend on Twitter in India. Mainstream Indian media repeatedly asserted that Tablighi Jamaat members were coronavirus “superspreaders”.

Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, chairman of the Delhi Minorities Commission, said that while Tablighi Jamaat had been shortsighted in holding the convention, there were “dozens of examples of government, political parties and other religious groups who also flouted the coronavirus restrictions and gathered in large numbers”.

He added: “But the whole focus is being directed only on Muslims. In the past few days, we have noted a new wave of attacks on Muslims across the country. There is talk of social boycott of Muslims, harassment of Muslims by Hindutva groups and Muslims are even being harassed by police in various areas.”

There has been a concentration of attacks against Muslims in Karnataka, where a BJP MP, Anant Kumar Hegde, has denounced Tablighi Jamaat as terrorists. Shortly after, an audio clip began to be shared widely over WhatsApp, urging people not to allow Muslim fruit and vegetable sellers into their areas, claiming they were spreading the virus through their produce.

Sayed Tabrez, 23, and his mother, Zareen Taj, 39, were among seven Muslim volunteers who were assaulted by a gang of local BJP members on 4 and 6 April, as they tried to distribute food to impoverished people in the Marathahalli and Dasarahalli districts of Karnataka.

“Some 20 local BJP members came on motorbikes and started shouting at us, saying, ‘You are not allowed to give out rations – you are Muslims so you all are terrorists spreading the disease. We know you are spitting in the rations and have come from Tablighi Jamaat to spread the virus’,” said Tabrez. Two days later, about 25 local BJP members followed them in vehicles before attacking Tabrez, his mother and the other volunteers with bats. Police have since arrested two people.

It is not an isolated incident. Manohar Elavarthy of the NGO Swaraj Abhiyan, which has been distributing lockdown rations, said dozens of attacks had been carried out against their Muslim volunteers in the past few days, including some by police.

In Mangalore this week, posters started appearing that said Muslims were no longer allowed in certain neighbourhoods. “No Muslim trader will be allowed access to our hometown until the coronavirus is completely gone,” read a sign in Alape. In the Hindu-dominated village of Ankanahalli, a video seen by the Guardian shows Mahesh, the village panchayat president, issuing a warning that if any Hindu in the village is caught fraternising with a Muslim “you will be fined 500 to 1,000 rupees”.

The hijacking of coronavirus as an excuse for discrimination comes after a growing state-sponsored campaign to turn Muslims into second-class citizens in India, as part of the BJP’s agenda of Hindu nationalism. Attacks on Muslims have become commonplace and the recent citizenship amendment act, passed by the BJP in December, prompted millions to take to the streets in protest, saying it discriminated against Muslims.

The situation got so bad last week that it prompted Equality Labs, a US-based south Asian human rights organisation researching Islamophobic hate speech, to release a statement urging the World Health Organization to “issue further guidelines against Covid-19 hate speech and disconnect it to religious communities”.

“Just weeks after the Delhi pogrom where hundreds of Muslim houses and shops were vandalised, an uptick in misinformation and harmful communal language are leading to violence,” said Equality Labs’ executive director, Thenmozhi Soundararajan. “The threat of another pogrom still looms.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...cy-theories-targeting-muslims-spread-in-india
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A muslim defending muslims by writing lies. Thats what the writer of this article did.

Tablighi Jamaat is responsible for a large number of cases in India. They were given no go ahead by police. Infact they refused to disband after police warning. They misbehaved with health workers. Attacked them. Hid from them. Broke a number of laws.

No amount of covering fire will change these facts.
 
cricketjoshila said:
A muslim defending muslims by writing lies. Thats what the writer of this article did.

Tablighi Jamaat is responsible for a large number of cases in India. They were given no go ahead by police. Infact they refused to disband after police warning. They misbehaved with health workers. Attacked them. Hid from them. Broke a number of laws.

No amount of covering fire will change these facts.
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Ok they misbehaved but what about news channels making headlines such as 'Corona Jihad'.
 
cricketjoshila said:
A muslim defending muslims by writing lies. Thats what the writer of this article did.

Tablighi Jamaat is responsible for a large number of cases in India. They were given no go ahead by police. Infact they refused to disband after police warning. They misbehaved with health workers. Attacked them. Hid from them. Broke a number of laws.

No amount of covering fire will change these facts.
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Really? Is that true?
 
andy0204 said:
Ok they misbehaved but what about news channels making headlines such as 'Corona Jihad'.
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This started after the health workers were attacked and 100s of foreigners were found hiding in mosques around the country.

Why were they hiding foreigners in mosques?

Why were they stopping and attacking health workers?

When almost every well known cleric in India had said that people shoukd cooperate and some even issued fatwas. Why were these TJ people doing this?

The ordinary Indian doesnt care about the guardian or NYT for these foreigners dont hold a stake in Indias future. Heck even the American President doesnt give two hoots to the NYT.

Nor do they read left rags like Wire or Scroll etc which have cropped up in last 5 years.

So the media they follow has the responsibility of telling them the danger that these TJ people created. People have the right to know about their welfare.
 
cricketjoshila said:
This started after the health workers were attacked and 100s of foreigners were found hiding in mosques around the country.

Why were they hiding foreigners in mosques?

Why were they stopping and attacking health workers?

When almost every well known cleric in India had said that people shoukd cooperate and some even issued fatwas. Why were these TJ people doing this?

The ordinary Indian doesnt care about the guardian or NYT for these foreigners dont hold a stake in Indias future. Heck even the American President doesnt give two hoots to the NYT.

Nor do they read left rags like Wire or Scroll etc which have cropped up in last 5 years.

So the media they follow has the responsibility of telling them the danger that these TJ people created. People have the right to know about their welfare.
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Don't twist it,I asked is this a terrorism?
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Punjab: Muslims Families Hide in Riverbed After Being Driven From Hoshiarpur Villages <a href="https://t.co/Pi1SC9y0CV">https://t.co/Pi1SC9y0CV</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/thewire_in?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thewire_in</a></p>— Siddharth (@svaradarajan) <a href="https://twitter.com/svaradarajan/status/1247940467624300544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


This guy and his fake news factory is looking down the barrel.

No amount of covering fire from a few politicians and couple of foreign publications is going to help him.
 
andy0204 said:
Now don't be innocent and naive that you don't know what Jihad means in this world.
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Btw which channel called it terrorism?

An organisation and its members puts 100s of 1000s at risk and then they attack health workers, misbehave with them and here you are trying to defend them and playing victim regarding what exact words should be used?
 
cricketjoshila said:
Btw which channel called it terrorism?

An organisation and its members puts 100s of 1000s at risk and then they attack health workers, misbehave with them and here you are trying to defend them and playing victim regarding what exact words should be used?
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They can use anywords,but Jihad did they kill anyone?
 
cricketjoshila said:
Btw which channel called it terrorism?

An organisation and its members puts 100s of 1000s at risk and then they attack health workers, misbehave with them and here you are trying to defend them and playing victim regarding what exact words should be used?
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I already said they are responsible.
 
cricketjoshila said:
Btw which channel called it terrorism?

An organisation and its members puts 100s of 1000s at risk and then they attack health workers, misbehave with them and here you are trying to defend them and playing victim regarding what exact words should be used?
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Cut your cr@p. You won't like it if people start associating RSS with the term 'hindu jihad'.

Coronavirus conspiracy theories targeting Muslims spread in India

The men who beat Mehboob Ali did so without mercy. Dragging him to a field in the village of Harewali, on the fringes of north-west Delhi, the group hit him with sticks and shoes until he bled from his nose and ears. Ali was a Muslim, recently returned home from a religious gathering, and the Hindu mob was quite certain he was part of a so-called Islamic conspiracy to spread coronavirus to Hindus nationwide. His attackers believed the devout 22-year-old must be punished before he carried out “corona jihad”.

The allegations were entirely false, but according to video footage and his family, the men who beat Ali on 5 April were in little doubt of his guilt, demanding: “Tell us who else is behind this conspiracy.” Ali was then taken to a nearby Hindu temple and told to renounce Islam and convert to Hinduism before they would allow him to go to hospital.

Five days after the attack Ali’s family was still in fear of also being accused of spreading the virus. “If we file a police case, the Hindus will not let us live in the village,” said one family member, who asked not to be named. Police confirmed that due to his attendance at a Muslim convention in Bhopal a few weeks back, Ali was being held in the isolation ward of Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan hospital in Delhi as a “corona suspect”, though he had no symptoms.

The attack on Ali is symptomatic of the growing demonisation of India’s Muslim community, who are being accused, without any basis, of conducting a malevolent campaign to spread Covid-19 to the Hindu majority.

Already a minority under attack – it is just weeks since Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in religious riots in Delhi – Muslims have now seen their businesses across India boycotted, volunteers distributing rations called “coronavirus terrorists”, and others accused of spitting in food and infecting water supplies with the virus. Posters have appeared barring Muslims from entering certain neighbourhoods in states as far apart as Delhi, Karnataka, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh.

The troubles began when the gathering of an Islamic missionary organisation, Tablighi Jamaat, held in mid-March in the south Delhi neighbourhood of Nizamuddin, was singled out by police and government as being responsible for the spread of coronavirus across India. The convention, which had been given the go-ahead by the Delhi authorities, was attended by about 8,000 people, including hundreds of foreigners. It soon became apparent that many at the convention had unknowingly picked up Covid-19 and brought it back to towns and villages across India.

Across the country, police were ordered to round up anyone associated with the organisation. So far, more than 27,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their contacts have been quarantined in about 15 states. In Uttar Pradesh, the police offered up to 10,000 rupees (£105) for information on anyone who had attended the gathering.

In a statement this week, the Indian Scientists’ Response to Covid-19 group said “the available data does not support the speculation” that the blame for the coronavirus epidemic in India lies mainly with Tablighi Jamaat. The scientists emphasised that while testing for coronavirus is extremely low across India, a disproportionate number have been of members of Tablighi Jamaat, as per a government order, therefore heavily skewing the figures.

Yet the test results were swiftly seized upon by members of the ruling ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), who claimed Tablighi Jamaat members had intended to infect millions as part of an Islamic conspiracy and were carrying out “corona terrorism”.

Senior BJP leaders accused Tablighi Jamaat of carrying out a “Talibani crime”, described their members as “human bombs, but in the guise of coronavirus patients”, and called for Tablighi Jamaat leaders to be both hanged and shot. Kapil Mishra, a local BJP leader notorious for hate speeches, tweeted: “Tablighi Jamaat people have begun spitting on the doctors and other health workers. It’s clear, their aim is to infect as many people as possible with coronavirus and kill them.”

Though quickly debunked, the rumours of Tablighi Jamaat members refusing to go into quarantine, assaulting hospital staff and throwing bottles of urine at Hindus quickly spread.

Hashtags such as “coronaJihad”, “CoronaTerrorism” and “CoronaBombsTablighi” began to trend on Twitter in India. Mainstream Indian media repeatedly asserted that Tablighi Jamaat members were coronavirus “superspreaders”.


http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...cy-theories-targeting-muslims-spread-in-india
 
andy0204 said:
They can use anywords,but Jihad did they kill anyone?
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I can be wrong but Jihad is not a taboo word. Infact, PM Imran Khan on his tweet asked to raise Jihad against Corona.

https://m.republicworld.com/world-n...s-jihad-against-covid-asks-youth-to-join.html

Lets face it....Jamaati's were at fault here and main reason why corona spread so fast in India. We can brush it off saying media propaganda but that wont hide the reality.

What foreign media like Gurdian or NY Times says has zero relevance in India. People on ground knows the reality. This was the survey done across all states and 84% people blame Jamat for the fast spread of the virus

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We release the state of the nation survey on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/lockdownextension?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#lockdownextension</a><br>1. 78% of those surveyed favor Lockdown extension<br>2. Odisha best , & Bengal worst performer in satisfaction index <br>3. 84% blame <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TabligiJamaat?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TabligiJamaat</a> fr rapid spread. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Covid_19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Covid_19</a><a href="https://t.co/IXoln9lHIg">https://t.co/IXoln9lHIg</a><a href="https://twitter.com/PMOIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PMOIndia</a><a href="https://twitter.com/pradip103?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@pradip103</a></p>— Jan Ki Baat (@jankibaat1) <a href="https://twitter.com/jankibaat1/status/1248937883374927874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Lol opinion polls and surveys are now facts :)))
 
Whoever is at fault at the end of the day the final blame lies with the governments always. At the very worst they shouldn’t have not let this happen and it’s their responsibility to make sure there’s no opportunity for that
 
Slog said:
Lol opinion polls and surveys are now facts :)))
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The ordinary Indian isnt bothered about what WaPo or NYT or Guardian has to say. Many wouldn't even know the names.

The people know the ground situation and they know what is being done and who is doing what.
 
Rajdeep said:
I can be wrong but Jihad is not a taboo word. Infact, PM Imran Khan on his tweet asked to raise Jihad against Corona.
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Yeah, because IK is trying to reclaim the word. Since the past couple of decades, it has been hijacked and used in a demeaning manner.

Let's not pretend that it doesn't have negative connotations when utilized in the West or in places like India.
 
‘Demonisation of Muslims’ over Tablighi Jamaat event: Can’t gag media, says SC

Responding to a plea that claimed that New Delhi’s Tablighi Jamaat event was being used by the media to “demonise” the entire Muslim community, the Supreme Court said Monday it cannot gag the media and asked petitioner Jamaat-Ulema-I-Hind to make the Press Council of India (PCI) a party in the plea.

The apex court also said it will hear the plea later, after Press Council has been made a party in the plea.

Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind had filed the petition in the Supreme Court last week in the wake of reports of coronavirus cases linked to the Tablighi Jamaat congregation at New Delhi’s Nizamuddin Markaz, and the eventual targeting of Muslims across the country over this. It had sought direction to the media “to stop dissemination of fake news” in this regard.

On March 31, the Delhi Police registered an FIR against Tablighi Jamaat preacher Maulana Saad and others of members of the outfit under Section 3 of The Epidemic Diseases Act (1897) for organising the congregation at Nizamuddin West Markaz amid the coronavirus outbreak. India witnessed a surge in coronavirus cases after many attendees, who had travelled to various parts of the country, tested positive. .

The Supreme Court’s response to plea comes two days after India reacted strongly to the United Nations’ call for the government to fight “stigmatization of certain sects of people”, with an Indian representative to the body saying the remark was “highly objectionable” as “such matters are being looked after by the government, enlightened citizens and the civil society in the country”.

In its daily briefing on Monday, the Union Health Ministry said no new cases of the novel coronavirus were detected in 25 districts from 15 states of the country in the last 14 days. Health Secretary Luv Aggarwal said 796 new positive cases and 35 deaths due to the coronavirus were recorded in the last 24 hours in the country. The overall cases in the country rose to 9,152 cases with 308 deaths. The ministry also said that over two lakh tests for COVID-19 have been conducted so far and they have enough stock to conduct tests for six weeks.
https://indianexpress.com/article/i...-jamaat-issue-cant-gag-media-says-sc-6360666/
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Another mischief by <a href="https://twitter.com/aajtak?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@aajtak</a>: story is about (South African) drug peddlers, caught in Mohan Garden area (near Uttam Nagar), at least 30 KM from Jamia. But Photo used by <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AajTak?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AajTak</a> is of police outside Jamia Main Gate.<br><br>Is this also some expose <a href="https://twitter.com/rahulkanwal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rahulkanwal</a>? <a href="https://t.co/7zfm09VeD2">https://t.co/7zfm09VeD2</a> <a href="https://t.co/lfUhwQzz7c">pic.twitter.com/lfUhwQzz7c</a></p>— M Reyaz, PhD (@journalistreyaz) <a href="https://twitter.com/journalistreyaz/status/1249743054115725313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Is this true?
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Abused, stopped from selling vegetables, allege Muslim vendors in UP <a href="https://t.co/HZx46UpoMR">https://t.co/HZx46UpoMR</a> <a href="https://t.co/Guy9SRy9rL">pic.twitter.com/Guy9SRy9rL</a></p>— NDTV (@ndtv) <a href="https://twitter.com/ndtv/status/1249654887295549441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Abdullah719 said:
Yeah, because IK is trying to reclaim the word. Since the past couple of decades, it has been hijacked and used in a demeaning manner.

Let's not pretend that it doesn't have negative connotations when utilized in the West or in places like India.
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Reminds me of N-word debate black people say it to reclaim the word but other people cant say it because it is taken as an insult maybe something similar is happening to the word jihad and I guess people should realize not every word is for everyone cause they didn't go through the same experiences as the other group.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Finally Indian Media found a Muslim angle in Bandra incident. <a href="https://twitter.com/ABPNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABPNews</a> asking questions like .. <br><br>◆Is Jama Masjid responsible for this chaos?<br><br>◆Did Muslim leaders provoke people through Whatsapp? <br><br>◆Is it a conspiracy?? <br><br>Shame on this <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MediaTerrror?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MediaTerrror</a> . <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SendUsHomeBack?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SendUsHomeBack</a> <a href="https://t.co/HWGZZVpuro">pic.twitter.com/HWGZZVpuro</a></p>— Md Asif Khan‏‎‎‎‎‎‎ آصِف (@imMAK02) <a href="https://twitter.com/imMAK02/status/1250087920855220229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Does this situation have anything to do with Muslims?
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Finally Indian Media found a Muslim angle in Bandra incident. <a href="https://twitter.com/ABPNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABPNews</a> asking questions like .. <br><br>◆Is Jama Masjid responsible for this chaos?<br><br>◆Did Muslim leaders provoke people through Whatsapp? <br><br>◆Is it a conspiracy?? <br><br>Shame on this <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MediaTerrror?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MediaTerrror</a> . <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SendUsHomeBack?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SendUsHomeBack</a> <a href="https://t.co/HWGZZVpuro">pic.twitter.com/HWGZZVpuro</a></p>— Md Asif Khan‏‎‎‎‎‎‎ آصِف (@imMAK02) <a href="https://twitter.com/imMAK02/status/1250087920855220229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Does this situation have anything to do with Muslims?
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Now this is pathetic from ABP news. This has nothing to do with muslims or Jamaat, atleast nothing of that sort is proven. So media should not spread false news.

This were migrant workers mostly from UP/Bihar who believed in a rumour that a train is scheduled to take them home and assembled there. Now who and why this rumor was spread needs to be investigated.
 
Rajdeep said:
Now this is pathetic from ABP news. This has nothing to do with muslims or Jamaat, atleast nothing of that sort is proven. So media should not spread false news.

This were migrant workers mostly from UP/Bihar who believed in a rumour that a train is scheduled to take them home and assembled there. Now who and why this rumor was spread needs to be investigated.
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Are you surprised? There is a propaganda going on against Muslims during this lockdown. :inti
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So this seems to be the primetime strategy tonight: connect the Bandra incident to Muslim politicians, use words like 'saazish', claim it happened near a mosque and bring up Markaz. <br><br>Rajat Sharma shows how to dog whistle. Watch:<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NLprimetime?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NLprimetime</a> <a href="https://t.co/aqzHEyxdwe">pic.twitter.com/aqzHEyxdwe</a></p>— Ayush Tiwari (@sighyush) <a href="https://twitter.com/sighyush/status/1250088175583686656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Saazish on <a href="https://twitter.com/NewsNationTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NewsNationTV</a>:<a href="https://t.co/TuViBJ96Q4">https://t.co/TuViBJ96Q4</a></p>— Ayush Tiwari (@sighyush) <a href="https://twitter.com/sighyush/status/1250088286275526656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Any idea where is this? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Quarantine?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Quarantine</a> <a href="https://t.co/6kjzB3La79">pic.twitter.com/6kjzB3La79</a></p>— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) <a href="https://twitter.com/vivekagnihotri/status/1249880094832611328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">VivekAgnihotri had shared a photograph of Muslims offering namaz in groups on the rooftops. The image was carefully cropped to remove landmarks that would identify that it is from Dubai. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AltNewsFactCheck?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AltNewsFactCheck</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/thisisjignesh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thisisjignesh</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/zoo_bear?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@zoo_bear</a> <a href="https://t.co/uOVHXzWTis">https://t.co/uOVHXzWTis</a></p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1250125070355308545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Abdullah719 said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Any idea where is this? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Quarantine?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Quarantine</a> <a href="https://t.co/6kjzB3La79">pic.twitter.com/6kjzB3La79</a></p>— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) <a href="https://twitter.com/vivekagnihotri/status/1249880094832611328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">VivekAgnihotri had shared a photograph of Muslims offering namaz in groups on the rooftops. The image was carefully cropped to remove landmarks that would identify that it is from Dubai. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AltNewsFactCheck?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AltNewsFactCheck</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/thisisjignesh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thisisjignesh</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/zoo_bear?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@zoo_bear</a> <a href="https://t.co/uOVHXzWTis">https://t.co/uOVHXzWTis</a></p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1250125070355308545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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quite clear that India is heading towards a very dark path. Darker than now. I cannot believe their numbers as the data just isnt reliable. I cans ee more Muslims dying once this crisis is over.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">*In Chhattisgarh, 108 out of 159 Tableeghis" turn out to be Hindus* <a href="https://t.co/zW8SbVuviG">https://t.co/zW8SbVuviG</a></p>— Altaf Qadri (@AltafQadriAP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AltafQadriAP/status/1249602047172739073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Strange.
 
The State Health Department has rebutted the claims, stating that patients are kept in different wards based on their medical conditions.

The Ahmedabad Civil Hospital has reportedly segregated wards of COVID-19 patients along religious lines, keeping members of two major communities, Hindus and Muslims, in separate wards.

Normally, at civil hospitals, wards are segregated as per gender: separate wards for male and female patients.

However, in this case, the wards have been segregated to keep patients of both communities separate.

Officials of the civil hospital are tight-lipped after local media reported on the issue, but insiders said that the decision was taken after a large number of cases were reported from a cluster of a religious gathering in Delhi and their contacts in minority-dominated pockets of Ahmedabad.

However, the State Health Department has strongly rebutted the reports of segregation based on religion. Patients are kept in different wards based on their medical condition, severity of the symptoms and age, purely based on the advice of the doctors treating them, it said.

As per the data, more than 50% of the total cases from Ahmedabad have emerged from select clusters of minority pockets in the city.

A doctor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that certain patients from the Hindu community were not comfortable being in the same ward as those of the Muslim community.

“After some patients complained, it was decided to segregate them on a temporary basis,” the doctor said.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/natio...ital-according-to-reports/article31344862.ece
 
Not sure what to make of this video. This doesn't look like migrant workers want to catch a train and go home.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Are these desperate migrants or a religious congregation? <a href="https://t.co/V9KHceDiNP">pic.twitter.com/V9KHceDiNP</a></p>— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) <a href="https://twitter.com/vivekagnihotri/status/1250094539903135744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Doctors treating a Muslim patient and his relatives in Moradabad were attacked. The doctors and health officials present were badly beaten, images on social media, not sharing them here. This is not an isolated incident and we have seen this happen in Indore, Mumbai and now Moradabad. Now if the doctors refuse to treat patients from these areas where they have been attacked, will it still be the case of the state discriminating against minorities? How difficult is it to understand that doctors are here to help and the least you can do is not attack them?

Article for ref: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/doctors-cops-escorting-possible-covid-19-patient-attacked-in-moradabad-up-2212244?pfrom=home-topscroll
 
Abdullah719 said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">*In Chhattisgarh, 108 out of 159 Tableeghis" turn out to be Hindus* <a href="https://t.co/zW8SbVuviG">https://t.co/zW8SbVuviG</a></p>— Altaf Qadri (@AltafQadriAP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AltafQadriAP/status/1249602047172739073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Strange.
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Oops.... that doesn't fit in with the Hindutva/RSS/BJP narrative
 
Abdullah719 said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Any idea where is this? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Quarantine?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Quarantine</a> <a href="https://t.co/6kjzB3La79">pic.twitter.com/6kjzB3La79</a></p>— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) <a href="https://twitter.com/vivekagnihotri/status/1249880094832611328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">VivekAgnihotri had shared a photograph of Muslims offering namaz in groups on the rooftops. The image was carefully cropped to remove landmarks that would identify that it is from Dubai. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AltNewsFactCheck?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AltNewsFactCheck</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/thisisjignesh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thisisjignesh</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/zoo_bear?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@zoo_bear</a> <a href="https://t.co/uOVHXzWTis">https://t.co/uOVHXzWTis</a></p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1250125070355308545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Mahaan India with commoners using Window AC. Window AC kon afford karta hay bhai.
OTOH, Use of Window ACs is common in Gulf.
 
last_knight said:
Mahaan India with commoners using Window AC. Window AC kon afford karta hay bhai.
OTOH, Use of Window ACs is common in Gulf.
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The pic is fake but window acs are very common in India. You get them starting 8K or so, so not that expensive
 
Abdullah719 said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">*In Chhattisgarh, 108 out of 159 Tableeghis" turn out to be Hindus* <a href="https://t.co/zW8SbVuviG">https://t.co/zW8SbVuviG</a></p>— Altaf Qadri (@AltafQadriAP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AltafQadriAP/status/1249602047172739073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Strange.
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'Expected' is the word you were looking for. :inti
 
GBK_Fan said:
The pic is fake but window acs are very common in India. You get them starting 8K or so, so not that expensive
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Price is more or less same in Pakistan. By affording I mean power consumption which is 3-4 times more than Split units.
 
last_knight said:
Mahaan India with commoners using Window AC. Window AC kon afford karta hay bhai.
OTOH, Use of Window ACs is common in Gulf.
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You will find more Window ACs than Split ACs in India. Because of cost of installation and all that expenses that comes with it people prefer Window ACs if there is an option in the room. Only when there is no window people go for Split ACs here.
 
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Price is more or less same in Pakistan. By affording I mean power consumption which is 3-4 times more than Split units.
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Usually used for a few hours at night. It’s not run all day long. India is an electricity surplus country btw, so maybe our unit costs are lower. Only speculating
 
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Usually used for a few hours at night. It’s not run all day long. India is an electricity surplus country btw, so maybe our unit costs are lower. Only speculating
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Thanks for info. And yes Pic is fake.It appears Mr Hotri knew it.
Good on Social Media. One can't escape with lies now. Bigger problem is liars don't care. Liars be liars will continue to lie in a changed format after getting caught red handed.
 
last_knight said:
Thanks for info. And yes Pic is fake.It appears Mr Hotri knew it.
Good on Social Media. One can't escape with lies now. Bigger problem is liars don't care. Liars be liars will continue to lie in a changed format after getting caught red handed.
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Thanks for reiterating what we all knew and something i acknowledged in my first response to you.
 
MenInG said:
The State Health Department has rebutted the claims, stating that patients are kept in different wards based on their medical conditions.

The Ahmedabad Civil Hospital has reportedly segregated wards of COVID-19 patients along religious lines, keeping members of two major communities, Hindus and Muslims, in separate wards.

Normally, at civil hospitals, wards are segregated as per gender: separate wards for male and female patients.

However, in this case, the wards have been segregated to keep patients of both communities separate.

Officials of the civil hospital are tight-lipped after local media reported on the issue, but insiders said that the decision was taken after a large number of cases were reported from a cluster of a religious gathering in Delhi and their contacts in minority-dominated pockets of Ahmedabad.

However, the State Health Department has strongly rebutted the reports of segregation based on religion. Patients are kept in different wards based on their medical condition, severity of the symptoms and age, purely based on the advice of the doctors treating them, it said.

As per the data, more than 50% of the total cases from Ahmedabad have emerged from select clusters of minority pockets in the city.

A doctor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that certain patients from the Hindu community were not comfortable being in the same ward as those of the Muslim community.

“After some patients complained, it was decided to segregate them on a temporary basis,” the doctor said.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/natio...ital-according-to-reports/article31344862.ece
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India on Wednesday came down hard on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom for its criticism of the country based on a “misguided” report that Covid-19 patients in a hospital in Ahmedabad were segregated on the basis of their religious identities.

The US Commission expressed concerns over the way India is fighting the coronavirus pandemic following a media report that a government-run hospital in Ahmedabad segregated the infected patients on the basis of their religions.

“As if its peremptory commentary on religious freedom in India is not enough, the USCIRF is now spreading misguided reports on the professional medical protocols followed to deal with spread of Covid-19 in India,” MEA Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said.
He said no segregation of patients is being done in the civil hospital on the basis of religion as clarified by the Gujarat government.

Srivastava said the USCIRF “must stop adding religious colour to our national goal of fighting the pandemic and distract from larger efforts”.

Earlier in a tweet, the Commission said it was concerned over the reports of Hindu and Muslim patients being separated in the hospital.

“Such actions only help to further increase ongoing stigmatization of Muslims in #India and exacerbate false rumors of Muslims spreading #COVID19,” it said. The USCIRF had earlier criticised India on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/indi...ided-report/story-4idYpkzwrhlWSuGfh1VC5L.html
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A group of women were held in Rajasthan's Kota for throwing spit bags inside houses when they were denied alms. The CCTV footage of the incident has been given a false Muslim angle on social media. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AltNewsFactCheck?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AltNewsFactCheck</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/Priyankajha0?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Priyankajha0</a> <a href="https://t.co/VK0Da3u4L7">https://t.co/VK0Da3u4L7</a></p>— Alt News (@AltNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/AltNews/status/1250721347203891201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A group of women were held in Rajasthan's Kota for throwing spit bags inside houses when they were denied alms. The CCTV footage of the incident has been given a false Muslim angle on social media. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AltNewsFactCheck?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AltNewsFactCheck</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/Priyankajha0?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Priyankajha0</a> <a href="https://t.co/VK0Da3u4L7">https://t.co/VK0Da3u4L7</a></p>— Alt News (@AltNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/AltNews/status/1250721347203891201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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This virus has exposed the ugly side of humans.
 
MUMBAI (Reuters) - The purple ink stamped on Iqbal Hussain Siddiqui’s hand by Indian health workers was supposed to ensure he stayed home under quarantine.

But the 66-year-old Siddiqui, an egg seller in Mumbai’s sprawling Dharavi slum, rubbed it off as best he could and went back to work. The mark would have condemned him to being stuck in an unventilated one-room home without a toilet.

It was also, he claimed, part of an effort by the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to target Muslims like him, using health workers to gather data on the community under the guise of containing the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Modi wants to make Muslims second class citizens,” said Siddiqui, who was ordered to be quarantined after a neighbor tested positive for the virus. “There is no one who is sick — it’s all a lie.”

His suspicions were echoed by a half-dozen other Muslims whom Reuters talked to in Dharavi, even though community leaders say they have been trying to convince people that the health workers are in the district to protect them from COVID-19.

As the coronavirus sweeps across India, Modi’s government has responded by imposing a lockdown on the country’s 1.3 billion people. As of Friday, India had announced 437 deaths from the disease.

The coronavirus has also exacerbated festering divisions between the country’s Hindus and its sizable Muslim minority, many of whom have seen their livelihoods threatened by the establishment of quarantine zones in densely-packed areas like Dharavi. There have been at least 71 confirmed cases in Dharavi.

A deep-rooted distrust of Modi by Muslims follows months of protests against a new citizenship law that critics say discriminates against Muslims, and a crackdown by India in the Muslim-majority territory of Kashmir.

There is no official breakdown of coronavirus cases by religion. But many Muslims feel unfairly blamed for spreading the disease after a cluster emerged at a gathering of Muslim missionaries in New Delhi last month. Sensational news coverage about the event, fanned by some Hindu nationalist politicians, helped spur the trending topic “Coronajihad” on social media.

The missionary gathering has been linked to at least 1,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, and more than 25,500 people connected to it have been quarantined.

Muslim leaders say a belief that the coronavirus is not real has spread in their communities, but that they have been working through mosques to change those perceptions.

“There is a strong feeling of distrust in the Muslim community towards the establishment,” said Gyasuddin Shaikh, a politician with the opposition Congress party in Ahmedabad, the biggest city in Modi’s home state of Gujarat, which was the scene of Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002. “It took us a lot of time and effort to convince such people that the documents are needed for medical assistance.”

Despite those efforts, public health experts warn that suspicions about the government’s intentions in a community of around 200 million people could complicate India’s push to stamp out the virus.

A sense of isolation within the Muslim population “does not enhance community participation and it drives disease underground,” said Dr. Jacob John, professor of community medicine at the Christian Medical College in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.

The health ministry and Prime Minister’s Office did not respond to requests for comment.

The health workers who have fanned out across districts like Dharavi to identify and track cases have been a particular source of suspicion. Some Muslims believe they are secretly collecting data for a proposed national database aimed at identifying illegal immigrants, according to community leaders and interviews with residents.

Many Muslims feel the database, the National Register of Citizens (NRC), could be used to render those without sufficient documentation stateless.

“We have to go and tell the community: ‘Please, this has nothing to do with NRC. This is for your safety,’” said Imtiaz Jaleel, a member of the All India Council of the Union of Muslims, an opposition party.

Most Muslim communities are supporting the authorities in their virus-containment efforts, said a senior health ministry official in the state government of Maharashtra, home to Mumbai. But in some cases, people sought in connection with the missionary gathering were allowed to hide in mosques, said the official, who asked to remain anonymous.

Maharashtra police have filed cases against more than 200 members of the missionary group, Tablighi Jamaat, for allegedly helping spread the disease, including by hiding in the mosques, a police official said.

Mujeeb ur Rehman, a Tablighi Jamaat spokesman, said some people had been stranded in mosques after the lockdown and were fearful of declaring themselves to authorities.

Gatherings of the Tablighi - an orthodox proselytizing group - have been linked to major spreads of coronavirus cases across India, Malaysia and Pakistan.

Some health professionals say the Modi government overstated the impact of the group in India and that intensive testing of Muslims, at a time when few such checks were being carried out in India, unfairly suggested the community was disproportionately responsible for the disease’s spread.

Mosques are seen amidst shanties in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, Mumbai, India, April 7, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
New Delhi has pushed back against criticism that it is singling out Muslims.

It is unrealistic to expect us to avoid denouncing “such an irresponsible event” merely out of “political correctness”, Foreign Ministry Secretary Vikram Swarup said last week.

OUTRAGE ONLINE

Inflaming the situation in India has been a spate of viral videos carrying false information. It is unclear who has been creating the videos.

Some videos depict Muslims attempting to spread the virus by spitting or blowing noses with currency notes.

Other fake reports circulating online are fomenting distrust about Hindus and the government. Some claim that Muslims are immune to the virus or allege they are the only ones being quarantined, said Pratik Sinha, co-founder of the fact-checking website Alt News.

“The process of building fear in a minority community happens in multiple ways: Through mainstream media, through constant attacks on social media, and then all you need is one video saying: ‘You are being targeted,’” said Sinha.

The government has ordered Facebook and the video app TikTok to remove users found to be spreading misinformation about the coronavirus, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

Such messages “have the potential for creating panic,” the IT Ministry said in the letter. “This effectively weakens the all-out effort being made by the Indian government for containing the coronavirus.”

Facebook did not respond to a request for comment. TikTok referred Reuters to an April 3 statement which said it had removed thousands of videos spreading misinformation about the coronavirus in India.

Many Muslims are also angry at what they say is the downplaying of clusters linked to Hindus. One reported case – the quarantining of 27,000 people linked to a Hindu man with the coronavirus who had hosted a gathering of around 1,000 people – has attracted particular attention.

Seated on a bench in Dharavi last weekend, Younus Ghouri, a Muslim taxi driver, became angry as he watched a Facebook video criticising what it said was the Indian media’s sparse coverage of the incident.

“Why is no one talking about that? They’re just talking about what Muslims did,” said Ghouri, 38.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ions-between-muslims-and-hindus-idUSKBN21Z0LN
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“In Varanasi, ration in the form of a ‘Modi Kit’ is being distributed, but it is being given only to Hindus, not to the weavers here,” Abdula Ansari, a weaver in his sixties, said.<a href="https://t.co/XnwJjOQqDD">https://t.co/XnwJjOQqDD</a></p>— Cobrapost (@cobrapost) <a href="https://twitter.com/cobrapost/status/1250994198230122496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/SukirtiDwivedi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SukirtiDwivedi</a> exclusive: a guard in an upscale Delhi neighbourhood was accused of a Tablighi link, and of infecting his employers.<br><br>The police booked him. <br><br>He has tested negative for the Coronavirus. <a href="https://t.co/dOtZQc5RRQ">https://t.co/dOtZQc5RRQ</a></p>— Sreenivasan Jain (@SreenivasanJain) <a href="https://twitter.com/SreenivasanJain/status/1251064001183625217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">India TV picked up a video from 2017 and dedicated an entire segment to falsely claim that an Islamic preacher provoked members of Tablighi Jamaat to 'spit'. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Coronavirus?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Coronavirus</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AltNewsFactCheck?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AltNewsFactCheck</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/Pooja_Chaudhuri?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Pooja_Chaudhuri</a> <a href="https://t.co/M9HHzNrv7B">https://t.co/M9HHzNrv7B</a></p>— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) <a href="https://twitter.com/zoo_bear/status/1250811422826737667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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I think its quite crystal clear now that India is a fascist state. blame everyone except themselves. i dont believe a single figure of corona coming out of there. How can we trust anything this fascist state says?
 
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I think its quite crystal clear now that India is a fascist state. blame everyone except themselves. i dont believe a single figure of corona coming out of there. How can we trust anything this fascist state says?
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It's quite clear that you're disappointed (for some reason) at India's relatively low Corona figures as evident by your distasteful comment wishing that "gazillion Indians would get infected in the coming time" on the other thread. Really weird TBH. :)
 
Being a religious bigot is the premier qualification for joining the ranks of ruling dispensation.

Another one joins the bigotry ranks whose only claim to fame is the movie Dangal made by Nitesh Tiwari.
 
Even in a pandemic, extremist Hindus are more focused on attacking Muslims.

What a horrible country to live in.
 
Watching a Sikh channel where a guy was saying some idiots roaming around their village in Punjab asking who was a Muslim, and stabbing and attacking anyone who said they were Muslim.

He said they were Hindu fanatics.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hello <a href="https://twitter.com/Uppolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Uppolice</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/UPPViralCheck?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UPPViralCheck</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DelhiPolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DelhiPolice</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/DGP_MP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DGP_MP</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/PoliceRajasthan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PoliceRajasthan</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/CCBBangalore?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CCBBangalore</a>, <br>Several accounts like these are deliberately sharing fake and communal messages without verifying. <a href="https://t.co/gaYH2QsTRu">https://t.co/gaYH2QsTRu</a><br>... <a href="https://t.co/4IEapooBdt">https://t.co/4IEapooBdt</a></p>— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) <a href="https://twitter.com/zoo_bear/status/1251560062595690496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Thousands of retweets and likes on the original tweet.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">News24 shared an old video thrice - March 19, April 1 and April 17 - to falsely portray that worshippers have been offering namaz at Delhi's Jama Masjid per usual despite the lockdown imposed to tackle coronavirus. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AltNewsFactCheck?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AltNewsFactCheck</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/Pooja_Chaudhuri?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Pooja_Chaudhuri</a> <a href="https://t.co/UOddEeMB52">https://t.co/UOddEeMB52</a></p>— Pratik Sinha (@free_thinker) <a href="https://twitter.com/free_thinker/status/1251496195681398785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Honest mistake, probably.
 
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