Islamic supremacists “dug out Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam” for a tweet from 2017. He merely criticized the broadcast of the adhan (the Islamic call to prayer) over loudspeakers. He didn’t criticize the adhan itself, just the volume; and for that, woe be unto him even today.
Two teens reportedly were stabbed for supporting his tweet when it was first posted, and now, three years later, Nigam still can’t live in peace.
Nigam has found himself stranded in Dubai because of the coronavirus, and now he has had to shut down his Twitter account over a renewed onslaught of hateful and intimidating messages from Muslims who get threatened and become threatening when anything about Islam is criticized. Telling.
“Singer Sonu Nigam deactivates Twitter account after Islamists attack him for his 2017 tweet on loudspeakers at religious places,” OpIndia, April 21, 2020:
Islamists today dug out Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam’s 2017 tweet where he had expressed displeasure over use of loudspeakers at religious places and attacked him, calling him ‘hateful’.
Owing to coronavirus pandemic, Sonu Nigam is currently stuck in Dubai as he was in the gulf country when the worldwide travel restrictions were put in place. After he started getting hate directed towards him, he deactivated his account.
It is pertinent to note here that Nigam did not have issues with azaan, but usage of loudspeaker for the same. He had earlier expressed displeasure over loudspeaker during Ganpati Visarjan as well.
He was then mocked for having deleted his Twitter account.Back in April 2017, Sonu Nigam stirred up a storm after tweeting his exasperation of usage of loudspeakers for azaan, the prayer call for Muslims. Even back then, the fundamentalists had attacked him for voicing his displeasure against the forced religiousness through loudspeakers. Some had even wished for throat cancer for the singer for wanting to stop usage of loudspeaker for azaan. After his tweet went viral, a bounty of Rs 21 crore was given on his head by one Rizwan Malik for the same. A maulvi in West Bengal issued a fatwa and announced a prize of 10 lakh rupees for any person who shaves the head of Sonu Nigam. Sonu took the fatwa head-on and proceeded to himself shave his head. But, the Maulvi refused to pay up, citing that he had two more conditions: that someone put a garland of old torn shoes around his neck and tour him around the country.
Two youths in Madhya Pradesh were reportedly stabbed after they expressed solidarity with Sonu Nigam….