Virat Kohli’s defence of Mohammed Shami breaks a silence Indian Express editorial November 1, 2021
The Captain's knock. https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/virat-kohlis-against-communal-hate-supports-mohammed-shami-7601060/
For a while now, the defence of tolerance and secularism — the inheritance from the freedom struggle, the default settings of a diverse nation — is framed as a political shibboleth, anti-this or pro-that.
His assertion of solidarity and brotherhood is not just relevant to cricket. It ripples out to the larger world of politics and culture, where every day the right to take offence is being weaponised to polarise, where micro-contestations over language, advertisements, art and cinema, are used to prise open the bonds that have held communities together and to hand over the freedoms of Indians to moral police and digital mobs. In this environment, Kohli’s words draw a line and say: Enough.
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The notion that in order to punish a man, you can threaten to rape his daughter, is abhorrent. The women's movement has highlighted this kind of mindset in communal situations. So I am glad that the Commission has decided to at, even though it may be construed as a political point by AAP on the Delhi Police.. I laud Kohli for having the guts to criticise the trolling of Sami. That was the reason for the continued on-line threats to his family..ie his wife and nine month old baby. The issue is not whether these trollers are in a position to or actually try to carry out this threat.. The issue is the "mindset" that it perpetuate.. and the effect of it normalising such online threats. It ever there was a case for preventive action, this is one.
I think the sports ministry and the minorities commission should also ask questions and take their action. How can we promote the spirit of sports, if the sportsmen feel that if they loose a match to a Pakistan player, their families would be under threat?
also check out..http://emeets.lnwr.in/index.php/1575 Coming as it is from a UN study report " Approaches to Online Hate" , we need to build pressure to get the findings to be discussed in a formal level in the UN..