Nupur Sharma: Prophet Muhammad row deepens India's diplomatic woes

[Eugene]

Related:
• Nupur Sharma: The Indian woman behind offensive Prophet Muhammad comments (BBC)
• Prophet Muhammad remarks embroil India in row with Gulf states (The Guardian)

Also: India: more countries join Muslim protests over Muhammad remarks (The Guardian)

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Source: BBC

Nupur Sharma: Prophet Muhammad row deepens India’s diplomatic woes

By Vikas Pandey
BBC News, Delhi

7 June 2022

India's diplomatic nightmare over controversial comments made by two senior officials of the country's ruling party about the Prophet Muhammad is showing no signs of ending.

The UAE, Oman, Indonesia, Iraq, the Maldives, Jordan, Libya and Bahrain have joined the growing list of countries in the Islamic world that have condemned the remarks. Earlier, Kuwait, Iran and Qatar had called Indian ambassadors to register their protest, and Saudi Arabia had issued a strongly worded statement.

Indian diplomats have been trying to placate these countries - it shares cordial relations with most of them - but the storm is far from over.

At the centre of this controversy is Nupur Sharma, who was a spokesperson of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She made the remark in a televised debate last month, and videos of her statement had gone viral. Naveen Jindal, who was media head of the party's Delhi unit, had also posted a provocative tweet on the issue.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-61701908

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Source: The Guardian

India: more countries join Muslim protests over Muhammad remarks

Disciplinary action against members of BJP fails to quell growing anger in Muslim world over comments insulting the prophet

Amrit Dhillon in Delhi
Tue 7 Jun 2022 12.26 BST
Last modified on Tue 7 Jun 2022 13.09 BST

Six more countries have joined diplomatic protests across the Muslim world over derogatory remarks insulting the prophet Muhammad made by spokespeople for the party of Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi.

Indonesia, the UAE, the Maldives, Jordan, Bahrain and Libya have joined Qatar, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Afghanistan in lodging official complaints over comments from representatives of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party. Meanwhile hardline party members have reacted angrily to disciplinary action against the pair after their comments went viral in the Middle East.

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The BJP’s attempt to quell the anger by suspending its national spokesperson, Nupur Sharma, and expelling its Delhi media head, Naveen Kumar Jindal, and dismissing them as “fringe elements” who did not represent the government’s views has had little success in the Muslim world.

And at home Hindu hardliners who have frequently targeted India’s Muslim minority vented their anger over the climbdown, unusually for a party that has never faced any internal criticism in its eight years in power.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/07/india-more-countries-join-muslim-protests-over-muhammad-remarks

[nycbos]

1. Make Mme think of this classic Onion article.

https://www.theonion.com/no-one-murdered-because-of-this-image-1819573893

[The Magistrate]

2. The Followers Of The Prophet, Sir

Are going to have to get over the idea that criticism, even scurrilous criticism and defamation of the founder of their sect is occasion for mob action and worse.

If a believer refrains some such, fine: the believer can neither tell me, nor expect me, to follow the same course.

[edhopper]

3. I cannot find what she actually said anywhere

looks like the world press has censored itself in fear of the violent reaction of some Muslims.
So they are basically proven the worst that is said about Islam.

[DavidDvorkin]

4. Same here

I couldn't find a quote or even a paraphrase.

[edhopper]

5. And when we say

there is a part of Islam that is intolerant and prone to violence, we would be called Islamophobes. And this isn't fringe, but major parts of the population in many countries. But the entirety of the world media being afraid to quote someone in what is a significant story, that's all good.

[Eugene]

6. BBC says it intentionally withheld the statement, but it is on Ms. Sharma's Wikipedia page.

Like dropping a lit match on a powder keg.

[edhopper]

7. True

Because certain people think there should be capitol punishment for what someone says.

[edhopper]

8. From what I can gather

Still can't find the exact quote. It was about Mohammed's youngest wife, who may have been 6 or 9, according to Islamic texts.

[TigressDem]

9. But NO WHERE does it say exactly what was said about the prophet

How is someone ejected from the party for making a stupid remark?

[TigressDem]

10. WIKI says Aisha the wife was 6 years old when married, 9 when marriage consumated.

Basically, it's a fact that Muslims are upset to have revealed. It was a different time and it's possible this was a way for the parents to make her safe in other regards. IDK, but unless she actually called him a pedophile..... not sure how a fact is an insult.





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_BJP_Muhammad_remarks_controversy



Comments about Muhammad

On 27 May 2022, Sharma participated in a debate on the Gyanvapi Mosque dispute on the Times Now television channel,in response to derogatory remark on hindu god Shiva by her opposition speaker and by many muslim on social media she replied with text from hadiths regarding Muhammad and the age of one of his wives, Aisha, noting that Aisha was 6-years-old when married, and 9 when the marriage was consummated.[15] In the past, the marriage of Muhammad with Aisha was a subject to wide debate and sharp criticism,[16][17] the comment that Sharma made was in reference to one of the authentic Hadith Shahih Al-Bukhari 5134[18][19]