ISLAMABAD – Microblogging platform Twitter has removed a post of the Indianruling party that featured a cartoon depicting Muslim men being hangedfollowing a court verdict that sentenced 38 people to death back in 2008.
The official handle of the BJP Gujarat division Saturday shared the postthat featured a group of men which can be seen hanging while the captionreads “No mercy to the perpetrators of terror.”
Twitter takes action amid an outcry on social media, as activists slammedthe ruling party for the anti-Muslim post.*(screengrab of removed post)*
Indian lawmaker, the President of the All India Majlis-e-IttehadulMuslimeen, Asaduddin Owaisi said “Cartoons were used widely in genocides ofJews in Germany and Tutsis in Rwanda. We expect nothing better from BJP,but should we assume that this appeals to BJP’s voters?”
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Indian National Congress members also lamented the rising Islamophobiaunder the Hindu nationalist government.
Following the outcry, BJP’s media cell convener in Gujarat said “we had nointention to target any community through the sketch as it was based onphotographs of the convicts published by the newspapers”.
