Dubai (Middle East) – Princess Hend Al Qassimi, an Emirati businesswoman, royal family member and anti-racist speech crusader, spoke up against a series of Islamophobic tweets on Thursday.
A Twitter user by the name Saurabh Upadhyay, based in Dubai, targetted the Tablighi Jamaat incident in India and went on an Islamophobic rant. He has since then deactivated his Twitter account.
Princess Hend Al Qassimi took to her Twitter saying,” Anyone that is openly racist and discriminatory in the UAE will be fined and made to leave. An example;” before adding screenshots to Upadhyay’s tweets.
The screenshots show Upadhyay’s Islamophobic rants comparing the Tablighi Jamaat gathering’s ‘religious fanatics’ to a ‘new form of jiiihaad custom’.
Tablighi Jamaat
The New Delhi mosque turned out to be India’s latest coronavirus hotspot after 24 people tested positive for the virus and hundreds of others were evacuated and quarantined from the complex.
The capital’s health ministry reported an estimated 1,500 to 1,700 people had been present in the Markaz complex and more than 1,000 of them had been evacuated.
(Photo syndicated via Reuters; with inputs from Khaleej Times)
