On Saturday, media organisation India Today was slammed for an ‘Islamophobic’ graphic which was tweeted and subsequently deleted by Rahul Kanwal.
He later told a Twitter user that tweet hand been taken down because of a misspelling and a wrong data point. There were two data points that were wrong in the graph, suggesting that the in the alacrity to put out the edgy graphic, the team forgot that
The Data and Intelligence Unit (DIU) has often been the butt of jokes on Twitter but on Saturday, they were accused of an unpardonable sin on Liberal Twitter – ‘Islamophobia’.
56% of new #CoronaVirus cases reported in India over past 72 hours can be traced back to Tablighi Jamaat. This is India’s version of South Korea’s Shincheonji Church of Jesus which led to 7000+ cases in that country. Jamaat responsible for 28% of India’s overall cases so far. pic.twitter.com/sfuXbdBw6H
— Rahul Kanwal (@rahulkanwal) April 4, 2020
Several users slammed the channel.
Mam the spelling of nearly is wrong.
— Rahul Kanwal (@rahulkanwal) April 4, 2020
Stop vilifying Muslims https://t.co/gTU3B0b5Hh
— Shaik Ahmed (@ShaikAh41398552) April 4, 2020
Islamophobic chart again, you guys would never learn!! https://t.co/pK0vYYHo1u
— Surya (@suryanethiraa) April 4, 2020
Let’s not make it communal, but
– Why are they not coming out?
– Why are they running from hospitals?
– Why are they misbehaving in hospital and with hospital staff?This shit is communal. #CoronavirusOutbreakindia #TabligiJamaat https://t.co/Sc3lJwCjvU
— Shivam arora (@Shivamarora__) April 4, 2020
This is India’s leading news channel. But let us not call this Islamophobia. pic.twitter.com/T0jlMBcyUV
— Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) April 4, 2020
someone in @IndiaToday thought this was a good idea.
If the Government had put this out, we would have hauled them across the coals
This is not the Govt. This is not the IT cell. This is the India Today group – you should be ashamed @aroonpurie pic.twitter.com/nxSQXDCUb1— Harini Calamur (#StayHome) (@calamur) April 4, 2020
I S L A M O P H O B I Ahttps://t.co/gFzJahqW9l
— Rahul Roushan (@rahulroushan) April 4, 2020
Surprisingly this is from India Today. pic.twitter.com/gOR5HFnU9S
— ʏᴏᴜʀꜱ ᴅᴇᴀʀʟʏ (@yours_dearly) April 4, 2020
According to India Today.. 60% new cases are from tablighi jamaat. So they use scull cap for the representation..
♂ pic.twitter.com/fHlwdbppDk— Whats Appp University (@Whats_appp_uni) April 4, 2020
India Today didn’t delete any of their illogical and misleading charts and infographics, but one cry of Islamophobia, and great Kanwal chickened out. As liberals love to quote “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize”.
— Rahul Roushan (@rahulroushan) April 4, 2020
Such a disgrace. And to think I once worked for this group. Pure poison pic.twitter.com/xipDudfWkD
— Samar Halarnkar (@samar11) April 4, 2020
Out of the total 386 confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in national capital, 259 are from Markaz Nizamuddin, said Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Saturday.
He informed that Delhi is facing a shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits and requires 50,000 kits on an urgent basis.
“Till now, there are 386 Coronavirus positive patients including 259 from Markaz Nizamuddin. We have only 7000-8000 PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) kits left in our stock which will last 2-3 days. We have demanded 50,000 PPE kits on an urgent basis,” Jain told media reporters here.
In the last two days, 600 people linked to Markaz Nizamuddin have been quarantined in Delhi and efforts are underway to trace all their contacts, he said.
According to the Union Health Ministry and Family Welfare’s latest bulletin, there 2902 positive COVID-19 cases in India, including 2650 active cases, 184 cured and discharged and 83 deaths.