Hatred against Muslims is on the rise in India at the behest of the Modi government Muslim women are being listed for an ‘online auction’ on an app for ‘auction’.
The news was shared by an Indian-administered Kashmiri journalist named Quratulain Rehbar whose photograph was sourced without her permission and uploaded on an app for sale.
Last year I wrote about how muslim women’s pictures were auctioned online where women felt haunted and humiliated. Today, after a year seeing my own picture in another trend #bullideals, besides other muslim womens’, makes me feel utmost disgusting. https://t.co/AE0N1sInE2
— Quratulain Rehbar (@ainulrhbr) January 1, 2022
Among the Muslim women up for auction on the Indian app was Pakistan’s Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, whose picture was uploaded for an online auction.
Pictures of more than 100 Muslim women have been uploaded on the Indian app called ‘Bulli Bai’, including the famous actress Shabana Azmi, wife of a current Delhi High Court judge, several journalists, activists, and politicians.
The same Kashmiri journalist tweeted that last year and openly talked about how openly Muslim women are being subjected to inhumane treatment in India.
She wrote that she must feel bad but she is not weak, and she cannot be silenced by these tactics. She will always write the truth. Expressing full solidarity with all Muslim women, she said that we are all strong.
This is not the first time in India that in July, about 80 Muslim women were offered for sale on an app called ‘Sulli Deals’, in less than a year.
According to the Indian report, after the protest of Muslim women, the pictures were removed from the app. An FIR was also registered but no action was taken by the Indian police.
UPDATE: An FIR has been registered by Cyber Police (South East Delhi) on the basis of my complaint with IPC sections 153A (Promoting enmity on grounds of religion etc), 153B (Imputations prejudicial to national-integration), 354A & 509 for sexual harassment. #BulliDeals pic.twitter.com/dJ1mspyiGI
— Ismat Ara (@IsmatAraa) January 2, 2022
