Jamat-e-Islami linked IAMC extends support to the wrestlers, while eugolizing Yasin Malik and anti-CAA Islamists

On May 31, Wednesday, Jamaat-e-Islami linked Indian American Muslim Council posted a video on Twitter to empathise with the protesting wrestlers Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia whom Delhi police detained from the Jantar Mantra protest site on Sunday. Notably, the Delhi police cleared the protest site on Sunday, May 28, after the protestors and their supporters breached the security cordon while trying to march towards the new parliament building for a ‘Mahila Samman Mahapanchayat.’ Further, in their desperation to demonise the Modi govt and portray them as ‘fascists,’ the Islamist outfit, which has a long history of lobbying against India, brazenly went on to extend their unwavering support to Islamists who had tried their hardest to push their anti-India agenda and create anarchy in India during the anti-CAA protests that engulfed that country’s capital in years 2019-2020. This part of the clip carried a caption, “From Jamia Milia to Wrestlers Protest: How Modi suppressed dissent.” Aysha Renna is one of the two ‘sheroes’ of controversial journalist Barkha Dutt, who had called India ‘fascist’ because the terrorist Yakub Memon was hanged to death after he was convicted for his involvement in the Mumbai Blasts that killed hundreds of people. It may be recalled that at the time when controversial journalist Barkha Dutt was trying to elevate female students of Jamia Milia Islamia University, Ladeeda Farzana and Aysha Renna as national ‘heroes’ after a video had gone viral showing them protecting a male student from police lathi charge during the anti-CAA protests, OpIndia had exposed the Jihadi ideologies of these Barkha Dutt’s ‘sheroes’. The radical Islamist group, which has links with banned terror organizations such as the Students Islamic Movement of India and Jamaat-e-Islami, further went on to add cherrypicked video clips from the farmer’s protest and anti-CAA protests that happened in Delhi in 2019, 2020 and 2021 and drew parallels between them and the Sunday scuffle between the Delhi police and the protesting wrestlers to show Modi as ‘fascist.’ It inserted clips of PM Modi inaugurating the new parliament building on Sunday, May 28 to insinuate that the Modi govt was indulging in a vanity project while wrestlers were being ‘mistreated’.