Indian cricket Mohammed Siraj is now being trolled after posting a tweet saying, “Thank you almighty Allah,” following India’s World Cup victory yesterday. Earlier in the morning, he had also shared a photo of the team lifting the trophy along with his tweet. While many congratulated him and the team, several trolls online started trolling him and making derogatory, Islamophobic posts.
The incident took place after India won their second T20 World Cup by defeating South Africa after 17 years on June 30th.
Thank you almighty Allah 🤲🤲 pic.twitter.com/3QxWQs1ezx
— Mohammed Siraj (@mdsirajofficial) June 29, 2024
However, trolls did not spare Siraj despite the happy moment. One X user, named Chandan Sharma, even wrote, “its victory of Team India not Allah.”
It’s Victory of Team India not Allah
It’s Victory of Captain Rohit Sharma
It’s Victory of Team 11
It’s Victory of 1.1 Billion Nationalist Citizens of India.Why everything attaching with Islam?
— Chandan Sharma (@ChandanSharmaG) June 29, 2024
Another seemingly anonymous user, with a verified account, commented “Allah was not playing 11.”
Another, verified account, going by the Sakshi Sonam commented, “Tum logon ka kaun sa yogdaan tha.”
Another user named Pankaj Yadav commented, “अल्लाह के बंदे खेले ही नहीं मैच में। अल्लाह के बंदे तो पहले ही हार कर अपने देश लौट चुके है। जीतने वाले सारे बंदे भगवान के है। ये जिहाद फैलाना बंद कर दे, वरना एक्स्ट्रा प्लेयर में भी जगह नहीं मिलेगी।” (Allah’s men did not play in the match, they have already lost and returned to their cuntry. The ones who have won are Bhagwan’s men. Stop spreading this jihad, otherwise you won’t even be taken as an extra player.”
In 2023, Siraj and another cricketer Umran Malik were trolled heavily, including by notorious hate speech giver Suresh Chavhanke, for refusing to have tilak applied to their foreheads.
मोहम्मद सिराज और उमरान मलिक ने स्वागत में माथे पर टीका नहीं लगवाया। वह पाकिस्तान नही हिंदुस्थानी टीम के खिलाडी हैं। अंतरराष्ट्रीय क्रिकेटर बनने के बाद भी वह अपने धर्म के प्रति कट्टर हैं। #Jago
pic.twitter.com/1sYHVlTJl1— Dr. Suresh Chavhanke “Sudarshan News” (@SureshChavhanke) February 3, 2023
The trolls did not point out that in the video two other cricketers, namely Vikram Rathour and Hari Prasad Mohan had also refused the tilak.
Meanwhile, in similar news, Sabrang India had covered how playing cricket does not just give a Muslim trolling, but how it also resulted in the death of a young Muslim man in Chikhodara, Anand district, Gujarat, where a young man named Salman Hanifbhai was beaten to death after a game of cricket.
Salman Hanifbhai whora, a youth who had gone to watch final match of cricket tournament was beaten to death by a group of 15-20 Hindu men at #Chikhodara, #Anand, #Gujarat on Saturday.
Gheto Parmar and Holo Parmar were beating Shoeb, Salman’s friend. When Salman jumped in to… pic.twitter.com/fRItidE8OC
— Hate Detector 🔍 (@HateDetectors) June 25, 2024
Salman had gone to save his friend, Shoaib who was beaten and attacked by two men. After trying to help, Salman himself was brutally beaten by around twenty men who used bats, sticks, and paddles. On his body were found stab wounds, brutal wounds from beating after his death. Reports have claimed that locals did not like that Muslims were doing well in the local tournament and the fact that several players, in both teams, were Muslims.
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