On Saturday (7th September 2024), Bollywood actress Sara Ali Khan received a barrage of abuses from Islamists on Instagram after she extended greetings on the Hindu festival of Ganesh Chaturthi. Pertinently, it has become a regular affair for Islamists to abuse the Bollywood actress for extending wishes on Hindu festivals.
Her recent post on Instagram has also been subjected to a lot of hate comments from Islamists with some excommunicating her from the fold of Islam, while others resorted to name-calling her and abusing her with derogatory and religio-centric slurs. Meanwhile, many users also lauded the actress for the same. So far, her post has garnered over 2,700 comments.
Sara Ali Khan Pataudi, a Bollywood actress, and daughter of actor Saif Ali Khan and his first wife, actress Amrita Singh, has uploaded a picture of herself while praying to Lord Ganesh. Her post caption reads, “Happy Ganesh Chaturthi…May Bappa bring only joy and peace to all of us…”.
Commenting on her post, some Islamist Instagram users lamented why she has a Muslim name when she indulges in ‘Shirk’ (acts that are considered Haram in Islam), and some expelled her from the Muslim community. A few others went on to abuse her with slurs and sent condemnation on her way for praying to a Hindu God. Some others lamented saying that the actress should have considered the faith of her father, who is a Muslim before praying to an idol.
An instagram post by Sara Ali Khan wishing Ganesh Chaturthi and comments below her post. pic.twitter.com/9p55LzzqlM
— Darshan Pathak (@darshanpathak) September 7, 2024
Shahpoor.yousufzai wrote, “You are muslim why do you do pooja”
Hayanoor2958 wrote, “Allah Almighty is one who creed this universe .. we do worship of One God Allah Almighty.. these idle stones are wrong”
An Instagram user with the handle name queen_rafika_sultana_ asked the Bollywood actress, “Sara ma’am kya ap namaz parti ho”. (Translation – Sara ma’am, do you read Namaz?) One user asked her whether she would be buried or cremated after death?
Mohammadaref1985 lamented, “You need change your name from khan to Singh”.
A handle named shoaib_metlo_ commented, “kuchh to khyal kar Apne baap ka vah Muslim hai”.
An Engineer named AL Razib Milton excommunicated the Bollywood actress from the fold of Islam saying, “whatever u r, u can’t be Muslim (sic).”
One user urged the Bollywood actress to ‘understand’ that she is a Muslim and commented, “Sara you are Wasted …. You Muslim. This world is fack please saara ji …understand”.
