Hinduphobia in the Media

           Abdul Quadar Mollah, "The Butcher of Mirpur"




This morning I heard on the radio news that Abdul Quadar Mollah was executed by hanging in Bangladesh.  For those of you who do not know Abdul Quadar Mollah, he was convicted  for assisting and participating in the killing of over three million people and raping of over 200,000 women in Bangaldesh by Pakistani soldiers in 1971.  This news item was covered in many large newspapers as well.  However, none of the media outlets mentioned that most of the three million victims were Hindus.   These are the same news media outlets who, when they talk about Gujarat or Narendra Modi, always add their refrain about the so called "pogrom in Gujarat where over thousand people were killed, most of them Muslims".  The media has been silent when the victims are Hindus.  The same people scream loud when the victims are Muslims.

The fashionable thing to talk about these days is "Islamophobia".  What about the Hinduphobia in the media?  Does anyone notice the elephant in the room?  Only if people open their eyes and minds.  I hope they do.

Following are some of the major media outlets that covered the news.  They all talked about three million killed, two hundred thousand raped, but were silent about the fact that most of the victims were  Hindus.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/bangladesh-approves-execution-of-opposition-leader/2013/12/12/3b50ee8a-62f9-11e3-af0d-4bb80d704888_story.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bangladesh-executes-islamist-leader-and-convicted-war-criminal-abdul-quader-mollah-over-deaths-in-war-of-independence-9001691.html

http://www.news.com.au/world/bangladeshi-war-criminal-abdul-quader-mollah-executed/story-fndir2ev-1226782100831

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/bangladesh-executes-opposition-leader-abdul-quader-mollah-1.2461467

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/18/world/asia/islamist-in-bangladesh-sentenced-to-death-in-killings.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1386953797-VeSuH2gL6YRFMacezBANLA

Only the following New York Times article mentioned that "Many of those killed were Hindus", but silent on how many out of that three million were Hindus.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/world/asia/execution-for-71-war-crimes-spurs-protests-in-bangladesh.html?ref=world