Syed Sujeel Ahmed
Bengaluru: In an extremely disgraceful and dirty tweet, BJP’s controversial Member of Parliament from Bengaluru South, Tejasvi Surya stated: “95% Arab women have never had an orgasm in the last few hundred years! Every mother has produced kids as act of sex and not love”.
Tejasvi has deleted this particular tweet after it surfaced yesterday, and a twitter storm against him got erupted. In the tweet, Tejasvi has tagged Islamophobe Tarek Fateh, who is infamous for his vitriolic against the Muslim and Arab world and love for the RSS, BJP.
The 5-year-old tweet has been dug-up now after a sudden spike in the Islamophobic posts on the Social Media by the Hindutva hate mongers, particularly in the Arab world. Netizen’s have started trending #dismiss_tajasvi _surya and #bjprssinsultarabs on twitter yesterday. Famous journalist Swati Chaturvedi has started a poll on twitter which reads, “Who is a bigger embarrassment to Modi and BJP: Sadhavi Pragya Thakur or Tejasvi Surya?” which has gathered over 11,564 votes by the time this piece was written. Many netizens and civil society members have reported @twitterindia to suspend Tejasvi’s twitter account and likened his comments to “a pervert’s musings.”
In the same year, in July 2015, he has tweeted yet another hatefilled tweet targetting Muslims. In which he has said, “In short: terror has no religion. But the terrorist definetely has a religion and in most cases, it’s Islam.”
Earlier this year, addressing a gathering of pro-CAA supporters in Bengaluru, Tejasvi has referred to Indian Muslims as illiterates and those who fix punctures. He told the gathering, “these puncture walla illiterates are demanding rights from us?” He has also said, “your namby-pamby secularism that you people have built so far will not work anymore.”
Many prominent Arab leaders and scholars have called to list and track down Hindutva Supremacists working in the Arab world and spreading hate on social media against the Muslims. The trend has particularly seen a spike after the COVID-19 spread in India, after which many Indian media houses went on witch-hunting and targeting the Muslim organization Tablighi Jamaat in the most deriding, derogatory and harshest ways, maligning the Jamaat to the spread of COVID-19 in India. The relentless smear campaign by the majority of mainstream Indian media went on with impunity for days together which has bolstered and reenergized the Hindutva brigade to unleash their tirade against the Muslim community.
