The New York Post has published a news item that can not only be called callous and irresponsible but also a clear case of Hinduphobia after it used the of a Hindu Sadhu holding a Diya with the headline “Indian priest’s wife chops off his penis after he wanted to marry again” for a story involving a Muslim man and his wife.
The headline and the previous image was misleading because it was an Islamic cleric whose penis was chopped off by his wife after he wanted to marry for the third time. During interrogation, she confessed to the police and said that they have 5 daughters, one of whom was unmarried and while the Islamic cleric was planning his third marriage, he showed no concern to his unmarried daughter. this led to a heated argument after which Hazra attacked him with a knife and chopped his member.
New York Post’s story was a clear case of dog-whistle journalism because of its intent to insinuate that the priest was a Hindu while it was a 57-year-old Islamic cleric in Muzaffarnagar named Maulvi Vakil Ahmad’s whose wife Hazra attacked him after he decided to take a third wife.
This led to immediate outrage and NYP was called out by netizens. It quickly fixed the featured image and replaced it with a stock image of a police van. However, it has still not changed the headline which is still misleading as the majority of readers of the New York Post are not Indians but Americans adding to the ignorance, bigotry, and prejudice against Hindus.
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