Umar Khalid humanised, like many Islamists earlier than him: The treachery of the ‘liberal’ media and a sample oft repeated

Umar Khalid, one of many chief instigators and conspirators of the Delhi anti-Hindu riots, has now spent 1,000 days in jail. On this momentous event, the liberal-Islamist ecosystem launched a coordinated marketing campaign to whitewash the fees towards Khalid, discuss in regards to the injustice being meted out to the Islamist and primarily, humanising the person who’s accused of conspiring to burn Delhi.

There have been a number of articles and tweets, primarily based purely on conjecture and falsities, that attempted to color Umar Khalid as an harmless pupil activist who had nothing to do with the riots. In truth, most reviews went as far as to assert that he was preventing for the rights of Muslims – rights which have been by no means being taken away from them within the first place, contemplating CAA had nothing to do with Indian Muslims and there was no nationwide NRC to start with (there nonetheless isn’t one). In truth, even when there was a nationwide NRC, it will nonetheless not take away the rights of Indian Muslims provided that it will purpose to determine unlawful infiltrators, an train that’s carried out by each nation on the earth.

In the marketing campaign to color a Jihadi as a humanist, ‘journalist’ Srishti revealed a nauseating article within the Times of India and accompanied that with an equally nauseating thread about how a lot Umar Khalid’s girlfriend misses him, how a lot she loves him, how they met and began relationship, how they meet in jail, so on and so forth. Srishti, it have to be talked about, is identical journalist who had abused Bhagwan Krishna earlier and was booked for it. For somebody for whom Lord Krishna was a ‘womaniser’, it comes as no shock that Umar Khalid can be a ‘lover’ value eulogising.

How a lot Bano misses Umar.. pic.twitter.com/xDJpPeARBt

— Srishti (@seekingsrishti) June 11, 2023

How a lot Bano misses Umar has actually nothing to do with the fees towards him, nonetheless, that is the article that Times of India, one of many main newspapers within the nation, thought applicable to publish. One actually can’t be stunned on the lack of editorial requirements of the Times of India, however for this drivel to cross editorial muster is a brand new low that the publication appears to have found.

One would think about that one of many main newspapers in India would deal with what the fees towards Umar Khalid are as he completes 1,000 days in jail. In truth, even when they needed to whitewash Umar Khalid and his position as a Jihadi, one would anticipate TOI to no less than attempt to puncture holes within the chargesheet that has been filed by the Delhi Police and is now being heard within the court docket of legislation. Instead, TOI, which is usually rife with semi-porn information objects, selected to interview Banojyotsna Lahiri, a lady who calls herself the ‘partner’ of Khalid.

In the interview, if one cuts by way of the muddle of emotional rubbish, there are a number of lies that his ‘partner’ spews. For instance, claiming that the protest towards CAA was ‘peaceful, colourful and vibrant’. There was nothing peaceable or vibrant in regards to the protests. Right from December 2019 to the fruits of Delhi’s anti-Hindu riots in February 2020, nearly every day, there have been violent assaults towards Hindus. Slogans like Jinnah Waali Azadi, Hinduon ki Kabar khudegi and so on may very well be deemed vibrant for many who want to “teach Kafirs a lesson” (one thing Tahir Hussain confessed to), however actually can’t be furthered as peaceable with out even a counter by the journalist – however that’s precisely what occurred.

Further, she claims that Umar Khalid has been incarcerated by the police within the UAPA case solely on the premise of a 40-second clip that was tweeted by Amit Malviya. Interestingly, this declare, that Umar Khalid has been thrown in jail over UAPA fees merely for his speech is a lie that has been countered earlier than. He has been thrown in jail underneath UAPA for planning and orchestrating the riot, not just for a speech. There are grave allegations towards Umar Khalid, one that can’t and shouldn’t be whitewashed by speaking in regards to the pining of his girlfriend. Details on the fees towards Umar Khalid may be learn right here.

In the interview, the girlfriend goes on to speak about how a lot she misses travelling with Umar Khalid, speaking to him, and screaming at him (Nobody can blame her for this, frankly, anybody would wish to persistently scream at somebody like Umar Khalid), and the way when he was out on bail, they loved joking, laughing and consuming non-vegetarian meals collectively. She claims that Umar Khalid has PTSD from an ‘assassination attempt’ and that their life turned exponentially tough after the 2016 sedition case. It is pertinent to notice that Umar Khalid was rusticated from JNU for one semester after an inside inquiry and the Delhi Govt itself, after a lot delay, gave a nod for listening to within the case – Umar has not received a clear chit but within the case and is unlikely to get one, provided that his involvement within the seditious slogans being raised in JNU was clear as day.

A theme within the interview of Umar’s companion is that she needs to reiterate time and again that Umar Khalid is ‘educated’. She first says that the marketing campaign towards Umar Khalid (which was principally holding him accountable for the Jihad he had unleashed) was unleashed as a result of individuals needed to silence him and what he represented – the educated Muslim. Later within the interview, she claims that individuals in Tihar revered Khalid and her, maybe as a result of they have been educated.

One has to surprise, what the purpose of this Times of India article was. The interview didn’t make clear any of the fees towards Umar Khalid, not even a factual refutation of them. As talked about earlier, even when the purpose was to whitewash Umar Khalid’s position within the Delhi anti-Hindu riot, one would anticipate some particulars as to how the ‘partner’ thinks, factually, he’s being wrongly incarcerated. None of that was added. It was merely about how a lot she loves and misses him, how a lot he appreciated to journey, how he will get her goodies once they meet in jail, and so on.

While one might snort and dismiss these shenanigans, humanising terrorists is a potent software that has been utilized by the media and their Islamist-Leftist brethren innumerable occasions earlier than to make sure that the world disbelieves the info towards the terrorist introduced to them as a result of their imaginative and prescient can be colored by simply how likeable and relatable the terrorist it.

The expectation is easy – when one reads this interview, one would think about oneself in such a state of affairs. What if my husband was thrown in jail? I’d really feel the identical, one would suppose. I’d miss him too, he would get me goodies too, he can be traumatised as properly and you’d struggle for his launch, identical to so many individuals are. The purpose is to determine an emotional connection to the typical citizen who will get emotionally blinded into supporting a hardened terrorist, ignoring the info of the case, primarily based purely on feelings and the way relatable the terrorist and his family and friends appear. With such articles, the media hopes that Umar’s girlfriend’s trigger would develop into the reason for the typical citizen, with the info being suppressed and summarily ignored – it will not matter what Umar did. It would solely matter that he’s your common boy subsequent door with individuals who love him, and he deserves to be freed. The emotionally colored lens would then lead to individuals not solely ignoring the info however refusing the idea in them altogether.

Another attention-grabbing facet is how the girlfriend harps on how educated Umar Khalid is. This too, provides to the charade of innocence. For the typical citizen, violence is the enterprise of the uneducated, the louts, and the goons – why would somebody pursuing a PhD be concerned in such unspeakable crimes? These articles play on the long-held stereotypes of the ‘educated’ which are usually harboured by individuals. The truth, that Islamists and Jihadis are fairly often educated people is forgotten as a result of the media, which is meant to remind individuals of the reality, brushes it underneath the carpet themselves.

Not simply Umar Khalid, Yasin Malik whitewashed and humanised by Hindustan Times

While Umar Khalid was being humanised by the Times of India, Yasin Malik, a Kashmiri terrorist accountable for the dying of a number of Hindus, was being eulogised by the Hindustan Times. In the article, earlier than HT even recounted the fees towards him, they spoke about how Yasin had turned to non-violence – this – after the ethnic cleaning and genocide of Kashmiri Hindus of which he was actively half.

“In 1994, after spending four years in prison in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh jails, he not only announced a unilateral ceasefire for the JKLF but also gave up arms, which led to a split in the organisation that had hundreds of armed cadres on the ground in Kashmir. Malik later started pursuing non-violence and used to hold hunger strikes as he said he was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. He also developed communications with civil society members across the country and outside”, HT wrote.

This instantly offers individuals the impression that whereas now there’s a clamour to offer him the dying penalty, Yasin Malik was a person who was preventing for “freedom” however had then turned to non-violence as a result of he idolised MK Gandhi, identical to any political chief of India, nonetheless, the reality is much from it, His historical past is violence and laden with Jihad towards the Kafirs – who he contributed within the genocide of.

Humanising terrorists – Not simply Umar Khalid, however a sample oft repeated by the media

This emotional blackmailing is nearly a sample with the media, each time Jihadis are caught on the fallacious foot – particularly those that they want to mission because the voice of the unvoiced Muslims. There have been a number of such incidents prior to now the place hardened Jihadis and terrorists have been humanised so individuals would neglect their crimes and solely bear in mind what good, common, relatable people they have been.

In 2019, after the jihadi terrorist head of Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, Zakir Musa was killed by the Armed Forces, there have been some media shops which tried to whitewash his crimes and humanised him. In a report revealed by News 18 on the slain terrorist Musa, prosaic details about him was used to mission as if he was a rock star or film actor. The report highlighted inconsequential info like how Musa’s father Abdul Rasheed Bhat, an engineer by career, had acquired a packet containing an iPhone, iPod, and three debit playing cards in 2013. Zakir Musa’s resolution to develop into an armed terrorist has been represented within the report as a father’s sorrow of his son ‘sacrificing’ luxurious. The report quoted the terrorist’s buddies saying how Musa beloved hair gels, costly deodorants, new garments and footwear. The report additionally tried to search out the ‘trigger’ that ‘made’ the so-called “Young boy who loved sports bikes and cigarettes” be a part of terrorists. In Musa’s case, the report says it was in all probability due to the incident when he was ‘slapped by a policeman’ and falsely accused of stone-pelting.

Perhaps, essentially the most brazen try to whitewash the crimes dedicated by a terrorist was performed by none apart from ‘illustrious journalist’ Barkha Dutt. Soon after Burhan Wani, then Hizbul Commander in Kashmir was neutralised by the Armed Forces in an encounter in 2016, Dutt misplaced no time in placing out a tweet describing Wani as a “headmaster’s son” as a substitute of calling him merely what he was- a wretched terrorist. The murderous Islamist tendencies exhibited by Wani held no significance however his father’s career as a headmaster of a college was thought-about as an essential nugget of knowledge for use to characterise him. This is a basic case of how Indian journalists present fodder to Pakistan and separatists primarily based in Jammu and Kashmir. Once the terrorist is described in humanising phrases, all his egregious sins perpetrated by him are whitewashed whereas the Armed Forces and the state that ordered his elimination are topic to incessant vitriol for killing “a headmaster’s son”.

In truth, within the aftermath of the Pulwama assault, a number of of the mainstream media organisations proceeded to rationalise the dastardly act of Adil Dhar, the terrorist who rammed an explosive-laden automotive into one of many autos of the CRPF convoy, killing 40 CRPF personnel. Dhar’s dad and mom have been interviewed by many mainstream media channels the place they have been seen diminishing their son’s terror act. India Today interviewed Dhar’s dad and mom who reasoned that his son turned a terrorist after Armed troops beat him up whereas he was getting back from his faculty. Very cunningly, Dhar’s dad and mom cross the buck on to the Security Forces by asserting that their son selected the trail of terrorism solely as a result of he was thrashed by the Armed Forces, which once more is an unsubstantiated declare.

The Hindustan Times additionally carried the interview, solidifying the makes an attempt made to humanise Dhar and supply a justification for the monstrous act perpetrated by him. The HT too revealed the dad and mom’ model of their son’s humiliating encounter with the Army which pushed him into becoming a member of Jaish-e-Muhammad. 

In truth, since we’re speaking about Umar Khalid, one solely wants to have a look at how Jihadis throughout the Delhi anti-Hindu riots have been humanised and whitewashed. Remember Shahrukh Pathan? The man who pulled a gun at a police officer? The media had tried their greatest to notice solely show he was a Hindu, however then whitewash him after it was proved he wasn’t.

In his present ‘Prime Time’ on twenty sixth February 2020, Ravish Kumar resorted to spreading half-truths and full lies in regards to the horrifying spate of violence that had engulfed the nationwide capital. In pursuance of what appeared as his agenda to tarnish Hindus and painting them because the aggressors of the riots, Kumar recognized Mohammad Shahrukh alias Shahrukh Pathan, who fired at Delhi Police personnel on February 24, as one ‘Anurag Mishra’.

When that agenda failed, The Quint stepped in and tried to humanise Pathan. In August 2021, 18 months after the 25-year-old Delhi anti-Hindu riots accused Shahrukh Pathan was arrested for brandishing a gun on the police and threatening them, The Quint revealed a white paper on him watering down his crime and making him seem like a cherubic saint. The Quint began by describing his menacing march as ‘brazen confidence in his gait’. Then the author of the ‘Shahrukh Pathan fan page’ romanticised his felony act. “Unfazed by the policemen in riot gear, he shot bullets in the air while media persons captured his acts in astonishment. The fact that the gym enthusiast, who was also a local, did not wear a mask to hide his identity, made his ‘bravado’ seem peculiar and odd,” the creator wrote.

The Quint then went on to clarify how his buddies described Shahrukh as somebody who was into grooming and was considering his look. He was characterised as somebody who was a biryani-lover, appreciated to place gel in his hair, blow dry them, put on crisp, ironed shirts, good footwear and properly, make TikTok movies. The creator interviewed Pathan’s mom, who clearly had glowing views about her son. She stated her son was harmless and ‘simple-minded’. Shahrukh’s mom additionally highlighted counterfactual situations to be able to water down her son’s criminality. She informed his followers at The Quint that she typically wonders, “What if she had given him food when he asked? What if the timing was a few minutes before or after namaz?”

The Quint primarily painted Shahrukh Pathan as a boy-next-door, considering grooming, who maybe wouldn’t flip right into a Jihadi and take part within the anti-Hindu riots if solely his mom had fed him on time – a ridiculous proposition, however one that’s used successfully by the media to humanise Muslim criminals.

A privilege solely reserved for Muslim accused

For the liberal media, the privilege of being seen as cherubic saints is just reserved for hardened criminals who work towards the curiosity of India, homicide Hindus and Jihadis who actively work in the direction of ‘teaching Kafirs a lesson’. When a Hindu is brutally murdered by these very jihadis, they not solely proceed to humanise the assassin however dehumanise the Hindu sufferer.

During the Delhi anti-Hindu riots, IB official Ankit Sharma was brutally murdered. He was stabbed so many occasions that his intestines lay outdoors his physique. On the opposite hand, Dilbar Negi, one other Hindu, was murdered mercilessly. His fingers and legs have been chopped off whereas he was alive after which he was burnt to dying. In each these instances, the accused have been humanised and the victims, dehumanised.

In the case of Ankit Sharma, the place Tahir Hussain was concerned, The Wire, AltNews and others tried to color Hussain because the sufferer of the riots who was making an attempt to name for assist. These assertions have been debunked summarily, however one can’t underscore the hassle by these portals. On the opposite hand, Ankit Sharma’s homicide was whitewashed. The Wire wrote in its report that Ankit Sharma was “stabbed to death”, as if, it was a traditional homicide throughout the course of communal stress and never a well-thought-out, deliberate homicide by Tahir Hussain and a mob who stabbed him over 40 occasions. In the case of Dilbar Negi too, the brutal particulars have been fastidiously hidden as The Wire wrote that Negi died of ‘burnt injuries’.

Again, this phenomenon of dehumanising Hindu victims just isn’t a brand new one. Just a few years again, Rajdeep Sardesai uncovered his personal hypocrisy when he requested others to cease politics over lifeless our bodies. It is a bit wealthy coming from somebody who rose to prominence within the journalism enviornment by politicising charred lifeless our bodies of harmless individuals in a practice burning incident in Godhra in 2002 and the following communal riots. Rajdeep had additionally written a shifting piece when journalist Shujaat Bukhari was brutally murdered. What is attention-grabbing, is that when Hindu Activist Prashant Poojari was murdered, Rajdeep had written a bit making an attempt to whitewash the crime and assert that his homicide had a “political context”. 

Shujaat Bukhari’s homicide was tragic, nonetheless, the actual fact stays that Bhukhari harboured terribly anti-India views which have been expressed fairly freely. While he was eulogised, a Hindu sufferer, Prashant Poojari was dehumanised by giving his homicide by Jihadis a ‘political context’, as if being murdered for political causes is much less heinous and subsequently, ought to be ignored.

I’ve, the truth is, written extensively in regards to the onslaught which was unleashed after I had reported somewhat boy lacking after the Hauz Qazi communal incident. In Hauz Qazi, a temple was desecrated by a jihadi mob even urinating on the murtis, in line with native Hindus. As the mob went on a rampage, a 14-year-old Hindu boy went lacking. With the dad and mom of the boy threatening to kill themselves whereas clutching the FIR, it was however the responsibility of a journalist to report the information. The mainstream media stored silent, the truth is, the journalist on the bottom merely walked away from the wailing dad and mom. When the information was reported by me, Newslaundry claimed that it fanned communal stress. When the boy was discovered submit our report, Newslaundry claimed that OpIndia was fear-mongering as a result of the boy was discovered alive. Essentially, for the liberal media, Hindu lives are so low cost that they deserve a cursory report provided that Hindus flip up lifeless. Otherwise, somewhat boy lacking just isn’t information as a result of it outraged the Muslims additional. If this was a Muslim youngster who had gone lacking, the response can be completely different. Just just like the Liberal media tried to whitewash the Jihadi mob throughout Hauz Qazi, they might work additional time to demonise the Hindus as a Muslim boy went lacking.

There is not any low, it will appear, that the liberal, company media and their paymasters wouldn’t fall to. The mandate has been clear for many years and what we see with Umar Khalid and the Delhi anti-Hindu riots is merely a repeat of it – humanise terrorists and Jihadis, dehumanise their victims and all the time.. all the time blame the Hindus whereas shielding the Muslims. There is not any mandate better. There is not any treachery extra sinister.