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First Arab world, now Canada saying enough is enough to Muslim-hating overseas Indians

A firm in Canada ended ties with an Indian over his Islamophobic tweet. But little has changed in India despite Arab world calling out rising hate against Muslims.

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For the past few years, Islamophobia and hate against Muslims have grown at an unprecedented rate in India without any consequences. And like most things Indian, this bigotry has also gone international. But while bigots in India have enjoyed a free run with direct and indirect support of members in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and even Narendra Modi government, the situation for bigoted Indians living abroad, such as in the Gulf and now Canada, has taken a different turn.

After several incidents of Indian expatriates in the Gulf countries being called out for their Islamophobic tirade on social media and getting sacked by their employers, it was Canada’s turn to take down such hate.

Ravi Hooda, a real estate agent based in Ontario, was angered by Brampton mayor Patrick Brown’s tweet over exemptions given in the city’s noise bylaws to allow azaan (call to prayer).

“What’s next? Separate lanes for camel & goat riders, allowing the slaughter of animals at home in the name of sacrifice, bylaw requiring all women to cover themselves from head to toe in tents to appease the piece fools for votes,” he tweeted in reply.

It was lost on the Islamophobe that the exemption was earlier limited to church bells and was now being extended to all faiths. Perhaps, he also forgot that he was in Canada, and not in India, where such remarks draw thousands of likes and retweets. But he soon learnt his lesson.

Hooda, who later deleted his tweet, was called out by several Twitter users, including Canada’s Anti-Hate Network, for his vile comments. The real estate company he was associated with terminated his services. He has also been removed as the School Council Chair by the Macville Public School.

This follows the recent trend seen in the Gulf countries where several Indian expatriates have been fired for their Islamophobic posts targeting Muslims for the spread of Covid-19.

While Canada has won praise for its swift action against Islamophobia, things back home are not that great with hate mongers having a field day — despite several Gulf nations being vocal about it and asking the Modi government to take action.


Also read: As Covid pandemic fuelled hate and violence against Muslims, Modi’s approval rating soared


Kosher in India, so works everywhere

Over the past few years, hate and communal polarisation, specifically targeted at the Muslim community, has emerged as a low-cost election winning formula for India’s political class. With already existing deep chasms of insecurity and communal divide, it takes no more than a dog whistle to act as communal kindling.

Indian social media, especially since the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha election, has seen a steady rise in hate targeted at Muslims, blaming them for almost every evil besetting the country.

The factual accuracy, and history, of hate mongers may be as bad as their logic, but they all manage to achieve the intended result – violence against Muslims.

If it passes muster in the homeland, if there are no repercussions here, why not replicate it elsewhere — or so goes the belief. This bigotry is so normalised that many Indians working and living in the Gulf countries, a predominantly Muslim majority region, see no problem in spreading this vitriol.

But unlike previous occasions when the Gulf countries had taken a customary stand on targeting of Muslims in India, the Arab world is more vocal and proactive this time. The fact that this hate is being spewed by the Indian diaspora working in these countries has also hit home. It may not bode well for the Indian economy, because expatriates from the region send a significant amount of remittances back home. India has held the top position as recipient of international remittances for a few years now, with the Gulf nations alone contributing more than 50 per cent of the total.


Also read: Sudhir Chaudhary’s jihad rant on Zee News just got hit with eggs, petrol and some beauty


CoronaJihad, CAA, NRC – chickens have come home to roost

Majority Indians’ unadulterated hate against Muslims risks undoing not only the social fabric that keeps the country together in a deeply polarised world, but also the economic benefits that help a large section of the country’s migrant citizens. But if the past months have shown anything, even a national health emergency is ineffective in curtailing Islamophobia; on the contrary, it can be a major tool in flaming it.

Between 28 March and 3 April, the hashtag ‘CoronaJihad’ appeared three lakh times on Twitter and close to 30 crore people were reportedly exposed to the hate.

The Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi and the subsequent demonisation of the Muslim community as the villain was just another chapter out of India’s Right and the IT cell handbook on how to target minorities.

Probably not wanting to rock the relationship boat with the Arab world, which recently bestowed several awards on him, PM Modi paid a delayed lip service and called for unity in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Overall, though, no one in his government batted an eyelid when Muslims were violently attacked or when incidents of their social and economic boycott by Hindus began to be reported from all over India.

But the international community showed it’s not blind to the hate, even if it’s beset with its own problem of fighting the pandemic.

In an annual report, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) listed India among “countries of particular concern” that would be subject to sanctions if they do not improve their records.

“In 2019, religious freedom conditions in India experienced a drastic turn downward, with religious minorities under increasing assault,” the report said.

With Canada now joining the league, there’s hope that the action of other countries will shake-up our conscience.

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222 COMMENTS

  1. HINDU, MUSLIM, SIKH AND CHRISTIAN
    They fought equally for independence and contributed equally to the welfare of Indians. The Hindu mostly believe in might is right which is self-destructive. All genuine people have the equal respect for all the religion.

    Respectfully submitted
    Ramesh Mishra ( A orthodox Brahmin by birth respecting each religion equally)
    Victoria BC CANADA

  2. We will soon make india a Hindu nation, we are coming to do this, you should worry that it will happen soon,You just keep barking, we’ll do our job,😁😁🚩🚩🚩

  3. The Hindu in the Muslim Countries should be treated the same as Muslim treated in India. Specially in the Arab countries, When you talk about filth and rapist. Hindu cast system known for targeting women in India with the government coverage. A joke when it comes the word democracy in India. The rest of the world see what you are truly are rapist. Hindu hosts cow urine drinking party to ward off coronavirus. .

    • He he, we evolved a lot we don’t believe in caste system, we don’t hate muslim.
      We give full rights to women, search raushni nadar, kiran Mazumdar shaw, sudha murty. You will find your answer . Name famous female muslim entrepreneur.
      No violence will occur, if we don’t give any right to female just like arab did.

  4. Nationalists (BJP) and Communists (Congress and all) have nothing to do with religion only know to use hate literature from both sides of the community by using apostates from their own faith to create strife and hatred. Why in medieval eras or even in ancient eras we didn’t saw this kind of communal hatred except some incidents even though saints and Sufis ideologically different never cause each other to kill or hate. We cultivated our own faiths never cared or bothered by others. The in comments and this article we are seeing both of the world’s are facing serious Hinduphobia and Islamophobia and this wouldn’t led any glory rather this might bring destruction like Spain faced in 15th century and China in 17th century.

  5. Muslims in India, just as in other democracies, just are not able to adjust and live in peace with any other religions. Wherever they go….they bring violence, rape, thuggery and loot…..all hallmarks of the demonic religion they belong to..

  6. The Jornalist who made this report is surely a muslim who enjoys in exploiting fundamental rights of innocent hindus. I dare you to see how terrorism is going on here with speakers even after 10pm till around 12.30 pm midnight, they shout in loudspeakers. I even complained to local police, but no action. My parents are very old and don’t get good sleep in our own house and this is happening in India, not pakistan.

  7. well, we can see what’s happening in France. The country who gave refuge to needy Muslims now those people want France to be an Islamic state which is totally against the idea of France as a country. so, I don’t give a shit what other firms says about Indian tolerance as these firms are also controlled by we all know who!. If it can happen in the European country’s then I don’t know what to believe about them.

  8. Fundamentalist muslims want a world where any criticism of Islam is not allowed, and the left is trying to deliver it to them.

  9. Its funny that it didn’t occur to the people who passed the law, supported the law, opposed the law, and are writing these articles that the correct response isn’t to allow azaan to violate noise pollution guidelines, it is to not allow church bells from doing so.

    Your religion, your problem. People can install speakers inside their house and listen to all the church bells and aazaans and bhajans they want all the livelong day. No reason to impose it on the rest of us.

  10. Modi is a terrorist who is responsible of mass murder in Gujrat and hate crime in India.

    Here I can read few comment about Prophet mohammed by some rss goons but they should look their own religon were Ram and Krishan as done nothing but fraud and cheating. Draupati kept doing sex by 5 men in name of marrige them at same time.
    Sita got affair with monkey .
    Krishna got thousands of wife and was sex addict .
    Ram and Krishan was jet black color but hindus try to show them as british white.

    First see your own relegion before talking about Islam & Christianity .

    • @jhones lol, mr, Jihadi katwa, Yes Krishna has many wives but non of them were his daughters unlike Muhammad who raped his own 6 year old daughter Ayesha…Puppet Muhammad was a daughter-molester
      Yes, Drupadi did polygamy with five pandavas, since your puppet Muhammad also did polygamy with many wives, yet Muhammad had intercourse with his son’s wife Fatima!!! Who marries his son’s wife unless you r a prevert???
      All other thing you wrote were false unlike Muhammad who had illicit relationships with Zainab, ulm-khautum and of course his own daughter Ayehsa….you follows a child rapist

      • I dont have much knowledge about hinduism but i wont tolerant any fool giving filthy false comments on our Prophet. None of the relationships were illicit or done on the basis of fraud or cheating. All his marriages are example for mankind to give respect to a woman and stop judging them on the basis of their marriages, caste and foremost discriminate on sexual grounds. Women were treated as toys at that time, and after Islam women got their rights and respect. They were given life instead of being burried alive. If u dont have knowledge then at least dont make it known to everyone how foolish u are.

    • Bro, forget about what krishna did. Muslims are marrying three-four people just like that even now. Could you care to explain?

      We never forced or killed anyone to convert.

  11. Islamophobia is a word made up by Islamists for the purpose of proselytizing. By hiding behind the “racist/victim of hate” card, it allows the deception of Islam to continue multiplying its population in those countries with whom they (Islam) is seeking to take over.

    Ungratefulness, resentfulness, bitterness, false accusations and the like, seem to be what continually reflects the Canadian Muslim Community. Living in a time warp of 800 years ago, having 800 years of resentment against the West for defeating Islam in the Crusades, they now and 10 to take Europe down by using the immigration laws in their favour. Always something to complain about, usually using HR departments as places to report supposed hate they experienced by the white Christian they’re trying to take down (and usually without any eye witnesses!); And enforcing their double standard. You know the idea they have that says, “no one is allowed to question the sexual immorality of the guy we think is a prophet, no one is allowed to ask us any questions about things that just don’t make sense in the Islamic religion, because that would be hate, racism, and islamophobia”. The double standard of that is, they often do the exact same things, theyathey everyone else is doing to them, to all the non Muslims around them.

    I remember at my old workplace one of the Muslim employees went to our HR department and attempted to file a claim against a fellow employee. She claimed that the employee, a Coptic Christian having fled persecution in Egypt, was hateful and racist to her during Ramadan by refusing to put the word “prophet” in front of Muhammad’s name in a conversation. There was no claim to file, it was tossed in the garbage. But, not for HR spoke to this Muslim employee and wrote her up for “disrespectfully starting conversations with people (who have not opted to join the conversation) about all the reasons why the Muslims don’t believe Jesus is the son of God”.

    So what’s the difference?

    I can’t question Mohammed’s current pedophile status? But making fun of Christians is allowed? Odd!?
    – it’s blasphemous to consider senior citizen having sex with a nine year old to be pedophilia
    – it’s a holy conversation to dethrone Jesus, lower him from son of God status to failed profit status, and to tell Christians during the lunch hour that Jesus didn’t pay for their sin when he died?
    Molester, good?
    Loving Saviour, bad?
    * I don’t need Muslim immigrants to lecture me on the beauty of multiculturalism, until racist countries like Saudi Arabia open wide their borders to be as multicultural as England.

  12. I think Hindus are targeted right now. These people are only playing victim cards with the support of their own Muslim countries. We Hindus can’t even speak our voice in our own country. Perhaps this is the situation God knows what will happen after a few years. And so called Hindu liberals will also get converted for their greed.

    • India does not belong to Hindus, it has always been a secular country, so just stop chanting your Hindu Rashtra Bullshit

      • Your Islam doesn’t belong here. But Hinduism was born here. Islamic invaders came to our lands and killed, raped millions of our people, destroyed our civilization and your loser talk about secularism. Take your secularism and shove it in your assets. We have given you place to live, freedom, holidays for your festivals, even spared your prayer calls 5 times a days even though it is very disturbing and have given at most respect and you are giving us lectures about secularism. Your so called prophet didn’t teach your about respecting the land in which your live. This is a Hindu state, if you don’t like it, take your assets from here and get lost to your desert where Islam came from. You have 57 countries to go, live there and live as your wish in your Islamic style.

    • Political parties used Islamophobia to gain public trust. Islamic leaders used Hinduphobia for the same. However, the individuals who suffer such hatred and discomfort are all innocent and the common people. Hate mongers started hate and common people are at the receiving end. RSS or BJP will never stop blaming Muslims and their teachings, just like Muslims and so called liberals won’t stop criticising BJP and it’s Hindutva agencies. The fact is both the parties involved here have a true agenda. The agenda of supremacy over one another for mere gains. But the sufferers are the common men, they are neither Hindu nor Muslims, just a collateral damage. We need to wake up. How long we let the scumbags play with us?.

    • Political parties used Islamophobia to gain public trust. Islamic leaders used Hinduphobia for the same. However, the individuals who suffer such hatred and discomfort are all innocent and the common people. Hate mongers started hate and common people are at the receiving end. RSS or BJP will never stop blaming Muslims and their teachings, just like Muslims and so called liberals won’t stop criticising BJP and it’s Hindutva agencies. The fact is both the parties involved here have a true agenda. The agenda of supremacy over one another for mere gains. But the sufferers are the common men, they are neither Hindu nor Muslims, just a collateral damage. We need to wake up. How long we let the scumbags play with us.

  13. Kashmiri pandits (majority as you people call hindus ) were forced to vacate Kashmir. ( this was not mughul time, unfortunately maybe the history books you read only had mughul time )

    Number of such incidents have occurred in india in different parts where ethinic cleansing of hindus was carried out. No action from govt.

    ( Would love to see a day how will people react in countries like Canada ( who are now considering to allow other faiths to practice freely as per will, which India had it for years and centuries) to when the similar things would start happen what happens in india.
    – namaz on roads and blocking roads
    – anti national sentiments and slogans in public
    – considering to have people converted and forced for conversions ( religious activities )
    – misusing powers and rights of democracy, right to protest and demonstration but there is no right of forcing a govt. to fulfil baseless demands on sucidal terms.
    – wanting everything but 0 interest in contributing to the society and nation.
    – anti national slogans and favouring the state terrorists.

    If muslims in India are having so much of an issue why are they still living in India, there father MA Jinah got them pakistan and recognised it as an islamic state , they must consider going over there.

    Muslims ( actually sanatan followers who were forced to accept Islam and began barbaric act of killing hindus in their own neighbourhood and also now thinking that they are descendants of arabs – identity crises)in India, have always committed acts which has caused trust deficits, they have never termed themselves as proud indians ( majority of them).

    There is no denial in the fact that every muslim is like that, but the larger question is muslims need to stand up in India and oppose these idiotic and anti national acts committed by their fellow muslims. They never stood up in past where , at the time of ethinic cleansing taking place in their neighbourhood, also they are not standing up now.

    They have a victim card, if a muslim is a convict of rape no disclosure if hindu is the one then everything is disclosed. ( people were done with these type of acts in india ) ( by the way more 20% of population is not minority, pakistan was 30% hindus , today hardly 1%, why your corrupt and biased heart does not recognise the cryings and screams of these hindus in pakistan and support india for CAA, sanatan principles got Bengali Bangladesh it was not Islamic principles , India won the war and carved out a new nation which was historically our land , is this joke to you ? )

    The list can go on, long story short , stop using your western first world problem projections upon issues in India ( from religion perspective they are way more advanced than your judgemental mind could accomodate, it will take another 50-60 years for such problems to occur in the west ( EU has witnessed some ), from scale perspective , 1.3 billion people in a democracy where people having freedom of expressing anti national sentiments snd world able to listen to them is not a joke , it is not a pusedo democracy which you westerns call it is a real chaos which progressing smoothly , again your judgemental minds can never comprehend.

    To all my fellow indians and sanatan followers, we were never weak before nor today, despite of 550-600 years of islamic torture and then british torture upon us we are still in majority today in Bharat from beliefs and living principles perspective this shows the power and inner strength we posses, we have a proud history which unfortunately was distorted but we must be proud of what we are and who are ancestors were. These idiotic articles are baseless and far from truth and reality.

    ‘Jai maa bharti’

    • We can only see that you mind is totally corrupted & their is sense of bias & Hatred has been infected in you by the prominent Sold Media of our Nation.

      Simply, India is for Indians & not belongs to any religion or particular Caste who is eager to subjugate. The section tht you are targeting first of all they are Indians & they don’t have to prove their loyalty to any1.

      What is happening right now with indian Muslims is start of hatred had been unleashed & we as Indians should stand firm together & support our brothers, Failing which this hatred will move to other Minorities one by one with different propoganda & finally my dear it will come to us on the basis of Caste. Don’t Sell of your Brian.

      Be a Nationlist & not a Racist.
      KARMA says What Poison you throw around & well come around. We join hands & build a a India to be ruled on the basis of Talent Ppl & not on the basis of any Caste hierarchy.

  14. Indian army looks like hindus but maybe or may not, if they are why they encourage all Muslims politics, why 10 million Iranians are there in India, why they have 5 millions afgans are they performing any fight for Muslims
    Christ Jesus save us

    • We can only see that you mind is totally corrupted & their is sense of bias & Hatred has been infected in you by the prominent Sold Media of our Nation.

      Simply, India is for Indians & not belongs to any religion or particular Caste who is eager to subjugate. The section tht you are targeting first of all they are Indians & they don’t have to prove their loyalty to any1.

      What is happening right now with indian Muslims is start of hatred had been unleashed & we as Indians should stand firm together & support our brothers, Failing which this hatred will move to other Minorities one by one with different propoganda & finally my dear it will come to us on the basis of Caste. Don’t Sell of your Brian.

      Be a Nationlist & not a Racist.
      KARMA says What Poison you throw around & well come around. We join hands & build a a India to be ruled on the basis of Talent Ppl & not on the basis of any Caste hierarchy.

  15. Indian Hindus needs to wake up and come out into the real world. Stop! Blaming Pakistan for your rubbish government! Your Hitler government is creating all those problems…. Indians in UK needs to take a firm action against there government in India.

    • Seems the present Indian government has you and others quite rattled. Why exactly should Indians in the UK take a stand against this government?

  16. Things are changing in India – Hindus have started asserting their rights after 70 years of independence. Why should Hindus be treated as second class citizens in a Democratic India? Justified laws for Muslims were not implemented.
    Yes, equality sucks – especially when your second class Hindu citizens are treated equally to you – the whole Muslim community takes notice and starts to play a victim game.
    What the guy in Canada did – I don’t support it – I also do not support what Muslims are doing in India.

    • When were Indians treated as second class in India?
      That was in Mughal era. Not since then. Their status was lost when the British came.

      • Kashmiri pandits (majority as you people call hindus ) were forced to vacate Kashmir. ( this was not mughul time, unfortunately maybe the history books you read only had mughul time )

        Number of such incidents have occurred in india in different parts where ethinic cleansing of hindus was carried out. No action from govt.

        ( Would love to see a day how will people react in countries like Canada ( who are now considering to allow other faiths to practice freely as per will, which India had it for years and centuries) to when the similar things would start happen what happens in india.
        – namaz on roads and blocking roads
        – anti national sentiments and slogans in public
        – considering to have people converted and forced for conversions ( religious activities )
        – misusing powers and rights of democracy, right to protest and demonstration but there is no right of forcing a govt. to fulfil baseless demands on sucidal terms.
        – wanting everything but 0 interest in contributing to the society and nation.
        – anti national slogans and favouring the state terrorists.

        If muslims in India are having so much of an issue why are they still living in India, there father MA Jinah got them pakistan and recognised it as an islamic state , they must consider going over there.

        Muslims ( actually sanatan followers who were forced to accept Islam and began barbaric act of killing hindus in their own neighbourhood and also now thinking that they are descendants of arabs – identity crises)in India, have always committed acts which has caused trust deficits, they have never termed themselves as proud indians ( majority of them).

        There is no denial in the fact that every muslim is like that, but the larger question is muslims need to stand up in India and oppose these idiotic and anti national acts committed by their fellow muslims. They never stood up in past where , at the time of ethinic cleansing taking place in their neighbourhood, also they are not standing up now.

        They have a victim card, if a muslim is a convict of rape no disclosure if hindu is the one then everything is disclosed. ( people were done with these type of acts in india ) ( by the way more 20% of population is not minority, pakistan was 30% hindus , today hardly 1%, why your corrupt and biased heart does not recognise the cryings and screams of these hindus in pakistan and support india for CAA, sanatan principles got Bengali Bangladesh it was not Islamic principles , India won the war and carved out a new nation which was historically our land , is this joke to you ? )

        The list can go on, long story short , stop using your western first world problem projections upon issues in India ( from religion perspective they are way more advanced than your judgemental mind could accomodate, it will take another 50-60 years for such problems to occur in the west ( EU has witnessed some ), from scale perspective , 1.3 billion people in a democracy where people having freedom of expressing anti national sentiments snd world able to listen to them is not a joke , it is not a pusedo democracy which you westerns call it is a real chaos which progressing smoothly , again your judgemental minds can never comprehend.

        To all my fellow indians and sanatan followers, we were never weak before nor today, despite of 550-600 years of islamic torture and then british torture upon us we are still in majority today in Bharat from beliefs and living principles perspective this shows the power and inner strength we posses, we have a proud history which unfortunately was distorted but we must be proud of what we are and who are ancestors were. These idiotic articles are baseless and far from truth and reality.

        ‘Jai maa bharti’

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