Boycott_Indian_ Products Hashtag on Twitter in the Middle East Was Run Not By the Arabs but By Pakistan and the Muslim Brotherhood
The
Hashtags Were Intense In Countries Where Muslim Brotherhood Is Active
Main
Points:
1. Since Uyghur
Muslims are ignored and Kashmir is mentioned, it seems to be the work of
Pakistan.
2. Arabs have
never spoken out against atrocities against Muslims anywhere in the world.
3. The
anti-India hashtags and violence against non-Muslims in Kashmir cannot be a
coincidence.
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By
New Age Islam Staff Writer
9 October
2021
In the last
wee k of September, the hashtag #Boycott_Indian_Products trended in the
Middle East on twitter. The hashtags were aimed at tarnishing the image of
India and the impression was created that in India, the Muslims are being
persecuted and killed at a very large scale.
The hashtags appealed to the citizens of the
Middle East to boycott Indian products as a retaliatory step and alleged the
Prime Minister of India being behind the anti-Muslim campaign in India. The
people behind the hashtags also appealed to the Muslims of the world to unite
and take steps to protect the Muslims of India. And last not the least, they
appealed yo the governments of the Middle East states to expel Indian citizens
from their countries, as they said,
India violated human rights in Kashmir.
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To spread
anti-India feelings among the citizens of the Muslim world, some videos and
highly exaggerated reports of atrocities against Muslims are deliberately being
circulated daily. It should be noted here in India while some fringe elements
are involved in communal and caste based violence against minorities including
Muslims, the majority of Indians are
peace loving and condemn such violence.
The hashtags found the videos of police actions against protesting
Muslims of the province of Assam to launch a social media campaign against
India.
In the Indian state of Kashmir, recently there
was a spurt in communal violence against non-Muslims. According to a report
published on Awaz-the voice, non-Muslims are being specifically targeted by
militant groups in Kashmir. In the last three days, militants killed five
non-Muslims in Srinagar including a well-known businessman and a principal of a
school. This kind of communal violence in Kashmir is new because Kashmiris have
lived peacefully and maintained communal harmony even at the height of
terrorism.
It is important, however, to see even this
situation, horrendous and dastardly as it is, in the perspective of recent data
to get a correct picture. An Indian Express editorial on the subject (Warning
in Valley: October 9, 2021) says:
"The fact is that an increasing number of civilians, most of them Kashmiri
Muslims, have been targeted by militants since 2019. This year, 28 people had
been killed until October 7, last year 37 were killed in the same period, and
in 2019, the number was 38. Most of them are Kashmiri Muslims suspected of
being “collaborators” of the post-2019 set-up in J&K."
The
violence in Kashmir was only mentioned to show that violence against Muslims by
the fringe elements among Hindus or violence against non-Muslims by the fringe
elements among Muslims has been a cause for concern for the Indian society and
it has tried to deal with it tactfully.
All prominent Muslim organizations and prominent Muslims have condemned
the violence in Kashmir and have accused Pakistan of orchestrating the violence
and pushing militants across border for the purpose.
English translation: “We have to continue
this campaign in support of our brothers in India. Hindus kill Muslims, will
you boycott their products? Boycott tourism and every commodity that says ‘Made
in India’. Boycott them culturally. Their films, yoga and all is Shirk
(polytheism) #BoycottIndianProducts”.
Therefore,
the hashtags being trended on twitter in the Middle East seems to be motivated
by political agenda of some fundamentalist organizations and a country that
wants to put India in an embarrassing situation and have a political edge over
it.
When we
analyse the people involved and countries where the hashtags were intense and
visible, we find that they were intense in Kuwait, Qatar and Oman. It was also
visible in Egypt and Jordan. It was very limited in Bahrain. It was visible in
Egypt, Jordan also.
However, it
was not visible in Saudi Arabia and UAE.
So it can
be inferred from the intensity and presence of the Boycott India hashtag that
it was very active in countries with the presence of The Muslim Brotherhood.
Also most
of the people involved in the hashtags are media professionals from Pakistan.
There are many media professionals working in the Middle East who belong to
Pakistan and therefore, further the political agenda of Pakistan in the Middle
East.
The
violence in Kashmir and the hashtags seem to be well timed. They cannot be a
coincidence.
It is also
surprising that an appeal for boycott of India products has been made on
twitter in the Middle East when it is a fact that Arabs have not shown any
concern for the atrocities perpetrated against Muslims anywhere in the world.
They have sided with Israel on the issue of Palestinians and they supported
China on the issue of the persecutions of the Uyghur Muslims. They did not call
for the boycott of Chinese or Israeli products to show solidarity with
Palestinians or the Uyghur Muslims. In the UN also majority of the Muslim
countries have not raised their voice against the horrendous atrocities against
the Uyghur Muslims by the Chinese government.
They have
not raised their voice against the genocide of Rohingya Muslims by the
Mynamarese military because China backs Myanmar.
They
support China on the issue of horrendous atrocities against Xinjiang
Muslims. A couple of years ago, not a
single Muslim country diplomat attended a meeting organised by the US and
European countries at UNHRC, Geneva, in which a former inmate of Xinjiang's
so-called re-education camps was narrating his tale. Not only that, they all
went to a meeting organised by China to say that all was well with Muslims in
China.
Clearly,
this is all politics. Of course, there are issues in India facing Muslims, Dalits
farmers, labour, and women and so on. But what have Arabs and Pakistanis to do
with these. They should introspect on how they treat their own weaker sections.
In fact weaker sections face problems around the world, most of all in America
and China, but Arabs and Pakistanis never speak against that or boycott Chinese
goods. Arabs do not lift a finger or even speak against Myanmar, no matter how
horrendous atrocities against them. In India, there are problems, but we have
to sort these out among ourselves. Also, these problems are not of the same
degree as facing Muslims, other minorities and weaker sections around the
world.
It,
therefore, appears that the Boycott_India_Campaign run on twitter
apparently by the Arabs is not actually being run by the Arabs but by the
people belonging to Pakistan and Muslim Brotherhood.
Such
campaigns will only prove counterproductive for Muslims and those running these
campaigns are not true well-wishers of Indian Muslims but want to exploit them
for their own political agenda.
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