Lokmat Offices In Maharashtra Attacked Over ‘Anti-ISIS’ Cartoon Derogatory To Muslims

Multiple Lokmat offices in Maharashtra were attacked for the Sunday edition of the newspaper that featured a cartoon to which a few Muslims took offense.

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The ‘blasphemous’ cartoon was put up in Lokmat’s supplement, Manthan.

 

The article which was named ‘ISIS cha paisa’ (ISIS’ money) had this image accompanying it, that enraged the Muslim community.

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The ISIS flag has writings on two places. The writing on the top means “There is no god but Allah” and the writing on the bottom in the white circle means “Mohammed is the messenger of God”.

 

The fact that “Mohammed is the messenger of God” was written on a black piggy bank, depicting a pig was found offensive by the Muslim community that considers pig as ‘haraam’ or unclean.

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An FIR was filed against the newspaper and the editor and security was increased at all offices of Lokmat after all the protests.

 

Many people expressed their views on the situation via Twitter:

 

Was it the right thing to do? What do you think? 

News  Sources: IBTimes, DNA

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