As the world is still coming to grips with what happened in Israel after the Islamic terror group Hamas carried out one of the deadliest terror attacks, Irena Akbar who once worked as a journalist for the Indian Express came out to defend the terrorist’s actions after they had kidnapped a German Jewish woman, sexually assaulted her, mutilated her body, and paraded it all over Gaza.
The woman, whose body was being taken in a pick-up truck, has been identified as Shani Louk, a German-Israeli dual citizen who was reportedly attending a music festival.
— Irena Akbar (@irenaakbar) October 8, 2023
First, this is NOT an etiquette of war in Islam to attack women, and hence this is condemnable.
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Irena Akbar in her long X post wrote, “The woman, whose body was being taken in a pick-up truck, has been identified as Shani Louk, a German-Israeli dual citizen who was reportedly attending a music festival. First, this is NOT an etiquette of war in Islam to attack women, and hence this is condemnable.”
Everyone on social media was aghast when they saw the body of this young Jewish woman identified as Shani Louk, a German-Israeli dual citizen who was reportedly attending a music festival. However, according to Irena one must not blame the Hamas terrorists because Shani Louk was already in a state of undress as she had posted photos in her Instagram account where one can see she is only in her bikini.
The Islamist journalist further said, “It could be possible that when she was killed, she was wearing a bikini or other skin-exposing garment. I am writing this with DUE RESPECT TO HER, and I DON’T mean to demean her, or justify what happened to her. I am being factual here, based on evidence from her own Instagram account where she would post pictures of herself in such clothes. So, it cannot be ruled out that Shani (with all due respect to her) was wearing a bikini or other similar garment when she was killed or captured“.
Irena did not stop there and she went on to write, “…I am being factual here, based on evidence from her own Instagram account where she would post pictures of herself in such clothes. So, it cannot be ruled out that Shani (with all due respect to her) was wearing a bikini or other similar garment when she was killed or captured,”
The former Indian Express journalist who has a very vivid imagination and over the years had mastered the art of false equivalency did not stop there and tried to balance her assessment of this horrid situation. She said, “So, let’s be fair before jumping to outrage, or celebration. Also, I have a question for non-Muslims: You often share pictures of bikini-clad Iranian women on beaches before the Islamic Revolution of 1979. You lament that the women were “free and liberated” in Iran before Shariah law was adopted. You use the bikini as a symbol of freedom and liberation for Muslim women of Iran, and you contrast that with the hijab, a symbol of “oppression” under Iran’s mandatory hijab law. So, why do you have a problem when Shani Louk was possibly wearing a bikini (when she was sadly captured)? Why do you have a problem when her almost-naked body could be publicly seen? Are you again using a woman’s uncovered body to make a point against Palestinians, and Muslims? “.
But what this secular journalist conveniently forgets to mention as she tries to justify what terrorists did to German tourist Shani Louk is that Shani’s dead body is on the back of truck with her clothes torn off. Her body seems to have been mutilated with terrorists spitting on her and also chanting Allah-hu-Akbar.
This is not the first time that Irena Akbar has made controversial comments espousing her Islamist views.
In April 2021, Irena Akbar caused controversy by attributing the Coronavirus pandemic to Allah’s will. She stated that her intention was not to express gratitude for the virus, which had tragically affected her family, including the loss of her aunt and her father’s ICU admission, as well as causing suffering in many households. Instead, she emphasized that while some individuals with fascist intentions were making their plans, she believed that God had His own plans.
She described the situation for Indian Muslims as being caught between two difficult choices. On one hand, they faced the threat of COVID-19 and the fear it brought, while on the other hand, they lived in fear of state-sponsored anti-Muslim violence. She noted that the former was not specifically targeting Muslims, and she believed that eventually, the public would question the government’s actions. In contrast, she feared that in the latter scenario, the public might welcome such violence.
In February 2020, she asserted that the Muslim community should not trust Dalits. She argued that during communal riots in Gujarat in 2002, which followed the Godhra train carnage orchestrated by a Muslim mob, Dalits played a role she described as “foot soldiers” in acts of violence against Muslims, including gang rapes and killings. She expressed distrust in Dalits, citing their mistreatment by their upper-caste Hindu counterparts rather than by Muslims. She also advocated for boycotting businesses run by Hindus.
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