Internet users react to insult by Indian media to martyrdom of Qasem Soleymani

WhatsApp users responded to the Indian media’s insults to the position of “martyrdom” of ‎Major General Qasem Soleymani and called on users to remove the channels owned by the ‎ABP media group removed from their receivers.‎

News ID: 448386

Date: 05 January 2020 - 15:13

RNA – The choice by various Israeli, British, American and Indian media organizations and ‎news networks to use the term “terrorist” in regard to Major General Qasem Soleymani has ‎met with a strong reaction by internet and social media users.‎
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In the wake of the insults to the position of “martyrdom” of Major General Qasem ‎Soleymani by India’s Ananda Bazar Patrika (ABP) media group, WhatsApp users have called ‎on the freedom-loving people of India, especially the country’s Muslims and Shi’ah people, ‎to remove the television channels owned by this group from their receivers and to express ‎their protests via phone, email and other communication channels. ‎

It is worth noting that the current government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is headed ‎by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist, who has bought many networks, in ‎order to follow the orders of the arrogant governments, such as the United States, Israel ‎and other Western countries, to disseminate Islamophobic material against Muslims and the ‎Islamic Resistance Front. Insulting the martyrdom of Major General Qasem Soleymani is part ‎of that program.‎

As it was seen in the past few weeks, these networks fully supported India’s cruel and ‎discriminatory Citizenship (Amendment) Act which amended the Citizenship Act of 1955 by ‎providing a path to Indian citizenship for Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi (Zoroastrian) and ‎Christian religious minorities that had fled persecution from Pakistan, Bangladesh and ‎Afghanistan before December 2014. ‎

The amendment was passed by the Parliament of India on December 10, 2019. This ‎amendment has been enacted against Muslims in India. Peaceful protests by people of ‎different religions and sects were given a religious slant and opponents of the law were ‎described as supporters of Pakistan and as traitors of the country. They are suppressing and ‎killing Muslim children, women and men and the extremist Hindu paramilitary group Rashtriya ‎Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has been destroying and seizing property by illegally entering ‎into Muslim homes in the uniform of local police. ‎

This is while the world has strongly condemned the martyrdom and assassination of Major ‎General Qasem Soleymani and has thanked him for liberating Syria and Iraq from the bloody ‎claws of the Daesh (ISIS) terrorist group.‎

On the morning of Friday, January 3rd, it was reported that Major General Qasem Soleymani, ‎the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and ‎Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, have ‎been killed in American airstrikes in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.‎

This was confirmed by the IRGC hours after news was reported of an explosion and that ‎rocket fire had hit two cars near Baghdad airport.‎

In a statement issued by the IRGC said, “The proud commander of Islam, Haj Qasem ‎Soleymani, was killed in an attack by American helicopters today after a long lifetime of ‎struggling.”‎

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