New Delhi: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Tuesday was the subject of much criticism after his tweet attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi ricocheted, resulting in him revising his post.
In the original tweet, Qureshi had made a faux pas and written, “Modi’s Dravidian supremacist ideology with relentless Islamophobia.”
However, after intense backlash and with several people calling him out for terming Modi as a ‘Dravidian supremacist’, Qureshi amended his tweet.
Dravidian is a term usually used to describe people from South India, particularly from Tamil Nadu as well as some parts of Southeast Asia and also Sri Lanka. PM Modi, however, is a native of Gujarat, a northwestern state.
His tweet now says “Modi’s Hindutva supremacist ideology”.
Pakistan has consistently appealed to @UN & @OIC_OCI to condemn Modi’s Hindutva supremacist ideology with relentless Islamophobia & violence/regional instability perpetuated. We also welcome @antonioguterres agreement on need to counter Islamophobia & OIC-IPHRC’s earlier censure.
— Shah Mahmood Qureshi (@SMQureshiPTI) May 26, 2020
‘No clue of Indian racial origins’
Qureshi’s tweet was in connection with United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ statement on the need to counter Islamophobia across the world earlier this month and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) criticism of “growing Islamophobia” in India on 19 April.
Since his tweet has been deleted, so have the troll comments. However, former National Security Council secretariat member Tara Kartha, in a post said, “Tamilian language is far older than Hindi. And yes, they would probably be insulted. !!!! SMQ seems to have lost the thread of his tirade.”
“It seems that the FM of Pakistan & whoever tweets for him has no clue about Indian history or racial origins. Attributing ‘Dravidian supremacist ideology’ to predominantly Aryan north Indians is even worse than claiming Turkic origins for Pakistan,” said Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani.
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Once upon a time Pakistani language speaking people of India, i.e. Hindians spoke proper Indian language and non Islamic language. But Islamic parties such as BJP and Congress have continuously imposed Pakistani language Hindi.
Islamic origin Pakistani language Hindi needs to be banned in India and India must revert back to original India languages with non Islamic language English as a neutral common language.
Thinking other religions are inferior itself shows that Islam itself is inferior as they follow and limit their minds to boundaries of their religious book.
He doesn’t even know who his own ancestors are, he calls himself Qureshi, a member of Quresh tribe in Arab.
Pak opinion doesnt matter, weather Dravidians or aryans we are one as india.
Once upon a time all Muslims of Pakistan were HINDUS and they still are Aryans.