Earlier today cricketer Irfan Pathan had shared a tweet. Lamenting over India’s future. In a tweet, Pathan wrote, “my country, my beautiful country, has the potential to be the greatest country on earth. BUT…..”
Though Irfan Pathan did not elaborate on the context, it was evident that he was commenting on the current socio-political events. A number of instances of communal violence have occurred recently, where Islamic mobs had attacked Hindu religious processions on the occasion of festivals.
In Karnataka’s Hubbali, a large Muslim mob had resorted to arson and had attacked a police station and a temple over a young boy’s social media post that allegedly ‘Insulted Islam’.
A few hours after Irfan Pathan’s tweet, Delhi Capitals player Amit Mishra tweeted in a similar format. Though Amit did not reply to or quoted Irfan’s tweet, it was clear that Mishra’s tweet was a response to Irfan Pathan’s earlier tweet about India’s ‘potential’.
My country, my beautiful country, has the potential to be the greatest country on earth…..only if some people realise that our constitution is the first book to be followed.
— Amit Mishra (@MishiAmit) April 22, 2022
Mishra wrote, “My country, my beautiful country has the potential to be the greatest country on earth…..only if some people realise that our constitution is the first book to be followed.”
Mishra’s tweet appeared to be sly at a certain group of people who believe that a religious book is over and above India’s constitution.
Interestingly, many “liberal” journalists took to Twitter to respond to Mishra’s tweet, hailing him for keeping the Constitution above everything, without realising that his tweet may just be a sly towards their favourite community and their propensity to keep their Holy book above the law of the land.
TheWire journalist Arfa Khanum Sherwani, who is a self-proclaimed “Muslim journalist” and often spreads lies to peddle the Muslim victimhood narrative and whitewash Islamists, quote tweeted Mishra and tweeted, “respect”.
Perhaps Arfa did not realise that the tweet could be aimed towards the same community that she regularly protects and ends up putting the Quran over the Constitution of India.
While Arfa has not deleted her tweet yet, another journalist, who quoted the tweet by Amit Mishra and hailed him, has.
Sakshi Joshi, who also regularly shields Islamists, quote tweeted the tweet by Mishra and said, “respect”.
After realising that the tweet could be aimed towards the community that keeps the Quran over the Constitution, the journalist promptly deleted the tweet.
