Celebrity chef Atul Kochhar received a lot of flak for saying the truth about Islam, though there were some factual inaccuracies in his claims. What triggered the outrage among Left-liberal commentators was a tweet by Kochhar while commenting on an American drama series –Indian Actor Priyanka Chopra had played a role in it — where a Hindu man was portrayed as a terrorist. Criticizing Chopra, Kochhar tweeted: “It’s sad to see that you have not respected the sentiments of Hindus who have been terrorized by Islam over 2000 years. Shame on you.”
Islamists and Left-liberal social media users attacked Kochhar, following which, American hotel chain JW Marriott decided to terminate his contract to operate a restaurant at their Marquis Hotel property in Dubai.
Later, Kochhar deleted his tweet. However, he criticized the decision of the hotel group. Kochhar told Al Jazeera: “The decision by JW Marriot Marquis Dubai is deeply upsetting, however I fully accept the great pain I have caused and the difficult position the hotel has been put in… I hope my friends and well-wishers in Dubai will forgive me and continue to support me in the future.”
It is interesting to note that those who criticized Kochhar did not find anything wrong with the portrayal of a Hindu as a terrorist. Many were critical of Hollywood and Bollywood films. “Muslims are often shown as terrorists, underworld dons or human traffickers. The number of such shows and movies are so large that Muslims have even stopped protesting,” Aditya Menon, the editor of Left propaganda website, told Al Jazeera.
Mahatma Gandhi was not hypocritical like the Left and liberals in the country. In an article published in 1924, Mahatma Gandhi says, “My own experience but confirms the opinion that the Mussalman as a rule is a bully.”
In another context, he says: “The Mussalman, being generally in a minority, has as a class developed into a bully. Moreover, being heir to fresh traditions, he exhibits the virility of a comparatively new system of life. Though, in my opinion, non-violence has a predominant place in the Koran, the thirteen hundred years of imperialistic expansion has made the Mussalmans fighters as a body. They are therefore aggressive. Bullying is the natural excrescence of an aggressive spirit.”
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