Bangladeshi Hindus face a genocide-like situation in their backyard at the hands of radicals. Some media firms deliberately shifts the blame on the Hindus for attracting violence against themselves.
The New York Times (NYT) in one of its reports termed the current ongoing anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh as revenge attack by anti-Hasina protestors who earlier ousted her from the post of Prime Minister and removed her from the post of Prime Minister and forced her to leave the country.
Earlier the headline given by the NYT read, ‘Hindus in Bangladesh Face Revenge Attacks after Prime Minister’s exit. However, the attempt to term the violent protests which has eventually turned into a full-fledged anti-Hindu violence as a revenge attack received immediate backlash from netizens.
Many nationalist handles on social media platform X called the headline an attempt to whitewash the anti-Hindu violence in separate corners of the Bangladesh forcing NYT to change its headline.
The portal then changed the headline of the articles through the narrative that the Hindus in Bangladesh are paying the price for supporting Sheikh Hasina remained unchanged.
Author Abhishek Banerjee in a post on X, ‘For New York Times, attack on Hindus in Bangladesh is not persecution. It is “revenge”. Revenge for what ? A “perception” that Hindus supported Sheikh Hasina in elections. This is 1930s Nazi level stuff from New York Times’.
Another nationalist handle with the name of Anshul Saxena wrote that “The New York Times justified the attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh by calling them “revenge attacks”. Now, a narrative is being created that Hindus are culprits, so they deserve this, while those carrying out the attacks are being whitewashed. This is international media for you’.
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