'What with all the piss drinking and dung worshipping': NPR producer's bigoted and Hinduphobic comments
Shocking Hinduphobia on display.
As PM Modi speaks about Hinduphobia and cows, NPR producer mocks Hindus and calls them ‘piss drinking’
On Wednesday, Twitter users lashed out at NPR producer based in Delhi whose disparaging tweets about Hinduism rubbed people the wrong way. Her statements came on a day when PM Modi spoke about a tendency amongst a certain commentariat to mock Hindus for their reverence for the cow as a mother figure.
She had tweeted: “If Indians give up on Hinduism, they will also be solving most of their problems. What will all the piss drinking and dung worshipping.”
She later apologised and wrote: “I wholeheartedly apologize for my tweet earlier. It was ill considered & unacceptable. I deleted it. I didn't mean to disparage Hinduism or hurt anyone's feelings. It doesn't reflect my beliefs and principles. Please accept my sincere regret. I'll be off Twitter for a while.”
Her tweet led to suggestions whether NPR – a privately and publicly funded non-profit media organisation based in Washington DC – could be trusted to cover news in an unbiased manner given such virulent views of its employees.
Of course, given the coverage of recent events in Jammu and Kashmir and Assam, one isn’t particularly surprised by such bigoted views on one of the oldest faiths and civilisations.