#Islamophobhia_in_India top trending on Twitter; records more than four lakh tweets within hours
New Delhi: Social media users in India on Tuesday evening flooded micro-blogging site Twitter with tweets calling out RSS and Right Wing organisations for triggering Islamophobia in India.
Hashtag #Islamophobia_in_India soon went as the top trending hashtag on twitter in India.
By 9:30 pm IST, users had posted more than four lakh tweets with the hashtag. While the users called out on the injustice and harassment being carried out on Indian Muslims in the wake of the spread of Corona Virus, several users also tagged top international and Arab leaders in their tweets to highlight the incidents of spread of Islamophobia in the country.
Several users also took to task Union Minister for Minority Affairs, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who earlier in the day had slammed Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) over allegations of Islamophobia in the country. Naqvi had asserted that India was a “heaven” for Muslims as their economic, social and religious rights were safe in the country.
OIC earlier had asked India to take “urgent steps” to protect the rights of its minority Muslim community and stop the incidents of “Islamophobia” in the country.
Users tagged Naqvi while revealing incidents of Mob Lynchings and others questioning Naqvi’s take on the issue of India being heaven for the Muslims.
Meanwhile, hashtag #RSSTerrorists was also among one of the top three trending hashtags on twitter at the same time.
Here are some of the tweets:
#Islamophobia_In_IndiaWe are living in secular country look this village entry gate poster....??? #Islamophobia_In_India. @ibrahim_com pic.twitter.com/lSNtZxyIfO pic.twitter.com/szbZAx6dX7
— Adil Ali (@AdilAli46281038) April 21, 2020
“A picture speaks thousand words”
— uzma (@uzzzuv) April 21, 2020
Stop Hate politics!#Islamophobia_In_India#Islamophobia_In_India#Islamophobia_In_India pic.twitter.com/5ih4BZtzOu
#Islamophobia_In_India
— ℍ????? ?????? حسین انصاری (@Haseen7star) April 21, 2020
No-one Need This Type of Heaven @DrAlshoreka#Islamophobia_In_India #RSS_terrorist_Organization pic.twitter.com/QpIjO0Y03f
They are real hatemongers and hatred peddlers against muslims in India.they are bootlickers of RSS-backed BJP, since morning to evening.#Islamophobia_In_India pic.twitter.com/uiTY85NvAM
— Arshadullah Khan (@Khanarshadjnu) April 21, 2020
#Islamophobia_In_India
— Mohammad Marte Khan Barkati Bagi (@BarkatiMarte) April 21, 2020
thi is aur news leval pic.twitter.com/yVjGupvIzW
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Trump rushed out of dinner event after shots fired; one arrested
Washington (PTI): US President Donald Trump and other top White House officials were evacuated unharmed from the annual dinner of White House correspondents after a man armed with multiple weapons fired shots outside the ballroom of the hotel.
The incident took place at around 8:34 PM local time when dinner was served. At that time, Trump was seen having a conversation with Weijia Jiang, the President of the White House Correspondents' Association, and mentalist Oz Pearlman, who was scheduled to present a show at the marquee event at the Washington Hilton here.
Secret Service officials and other security personnel covered the President, First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President J D Vance, and the Second Lady Usha Vance, who were seated at the head table, and escorted them out of the ballroom.
Several guests at the dinner, including leaders across the political spectrum, journalists and other invitees, ducked under the table, apparently as a reflex reaction.
Putting up a brave face, President Trump later announced on Truth Social that the dinner would be rescheduled within 30 days.
“Boom, boom, boom, boom is all that I heard, and many guests ducked under the table,” a C-SPAN reporter at the dinner said.
Hours later, Trump addressed a press conference at the White House and announced that the security personnel had captured one person who hails from California.
“I heard a noise and sort of thought it was a tray going down. I've heard that many times. It was a pretty loud noise, and it was from quite far away. He (the attacker) hadn't reached the area at all. They really got him,” Trump told reporters, recalling the incident.
Trump said one security officer was shot at but saved as he was wearing a bulletproof vest.
Several protestors had lined up on the road outside the hotel, raising slogans against the Trump administration and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
A CNN reporter who was outside the ballroom at the Washington Hilton said he saw a gunman opening fire just a few feet away. He was among the dozens of attendees who took cover as law enforcement swarmed the venue.
The suspect has been identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen from California.
Asked how Saturday’s incident impacts him as the US president, Trump told reporters he is in a dangerous job but that he is no “basket case.”
“I like not to think about it. I lead a pretty normal life, considering, you know, it’s a dangerous life. I think I handle it as well as it can be handled,” Trump said.
Trump has survived two assassination attempts over the past two years – first at a presidential election campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024, and later in Palm Beach, Florida, on September 15, 2024.
“I will say you had Republicans, Democrats, independents, conservatives, liberals, and progressives...everybody in that room, big crowd, record-setting crowd,” he said.
“We had some great work done by law enforcement, but in light of this evening's events, I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts in resolving our differences peacefully,” Trump said.
