“The grooming gang conundrum: Why for the media, Muslim perpetrators preying on young non-Muslim girls abroad always become ‘Indian’ and ‘Asian’”, Opindia, August 22, 2024:
“The media, especially the Western media, has its own ways of shielding the religious identity of Muslims when found involved in criminal activities and emphasising the same they happen to do something positive.
The world is in shock after A 40-year-old doctor in Michigan, Oumair Aejaz was arrested in the US after being charged with numerous sex crimes, including recording thousands of nude images of women and children over the past six years. A significant section of the media even in this horrifying crime managed to fan stereotypes against Indians and conceal the religious identity of the perpetrator.
In a flagrant display of hypocrisy, a large section of the media across the world emphasises a Muslim person’s religious identity when they do something great or decent, but downplays or obscures the same identity when they engage in criminal activity. While usually, the foreign media calls the accused persons involved in such cases either Asian or South Asian, this time, the emphasis is explicitly on his Indian origins…….”
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