Media Hub in Noida Plastered With Islamophobic Posters, Police Delay Filing an FIR

Hindu Sena, a right wing group, reportedly put up several anti-Muslim hoardings targeting the religion and its holy scripture Quran in Noida's Film City area on Friday, June 20.

One of the hoardings read: "Gair Muslim ki pakdi gayi ladkiyon se vaishyavriti mat karwao, yadi zabardasti vaishyavriti karwaoge to Allah tumhe maaf nahi karega (Do not involve non-Muslim girls in prostitution, and if you do so forcefully, Allah will never forgive you).” 'Quran 24:33' is written on the top of the hoardings, as if it was taken from the holy scripture of Islam.

A hoarding which was dropped on the floor read: “Aseem Waqar ka bayan – Muslim Gujarat ko nahi bhool sakta. To Hindu bhai kyun bhoolein ki 10 crore Hinduon ka narsanhar Muslim shasakon ne kiya (Aseem Waqar stated that Muslims cannot forget what happened with them in Gujarat. So how can Hindu forget that 10 crore Hindus were massacred by Mughal emperors).”

Another hoarding said: "Islam me shadi nahi hota hai. Karar hota hai. Nikah ka arth shadi nahi hai. Meher me paise dekar ladkiyon ko khaeeda jata hai. (Marriage is a contract in Islam. Nikah does not mean marriage and by giving money to the girls in meher, they actually buy the girls).”

One of the posters also said that Hindu does not vote for Modi because of road, petrol, onion or tomato, but they vote to save themselves (Hindu community) and their generation.

These posters were put up in Film City in NCR, which is a home to several mainstream media houses, where police patrols round the clock. A person named Surjit Yadav of Hindu Sena has reportedly put up these hoardings. After receiving several complaints, police have removed the hoardings. This kind of hate-mongering in an area which is frequented by reputed journalists, who set the agenda for the ‘prime time’, is quite dangerous.

Speaking to Newsclick, a journalist said, "Till 10 o'clock in the night, there were no such hoardings but when I was returning to the home finishing my night shift, I saw almost 50 hoardings put up. Later after complaining to the Noida police, those were removed."

He further said that the police did not file an FIR against Surjit Yadav, even after receiving a written application and said that they will do the FIR process on Sunday as they had to look into a murder case.

The sad part of the story is in spite of having the name of the accused in the case, police hasn’t traced him so far.