JNU professor Anand Ranganathan made a tweet after the Islamic violence erupted in Bengaluru. In this tweet, he appealed to the specific community that those who oppose a verse in the Quran, in which there is talk of punishment for misbehaving Allah or with the followers, they should now speak out loud.
This tweet by Anand Ranganathan was like a target on those who talk about religion and religion in normal days but when any religious violence like Bengaluru happens, then they talk about humanity and divert attention from their crimes.
The JNU professor had quoted this verse of the Quran on this attitude – “Whoever reprimands Allah and his captors, Allah curses them in this place and also prepares humiliating punishment for them.”
Dr. Ranganathan, while writing these lines of the Quran, said that Muslims who do not believe in these things of the Quran, should say this out loud. However, Twitter blocked his account, calling his tweet a violation of the rules.
In the cause, Twitter described Anand Ranganathan’s tweet as ‘hateful’. On which the JNU professor wrote to Twitter, appealing that what he has tweeted is a verse of the Quran. So does this mean that the import written in the Quran is abhorrent? In which case it will be determined that quoting a rectangle is a violation of your rules.
Let me tell you that the Quran verse which Dr. Anand Ranganathan has mentioned in his tweet can be read here at https://quran.com/33/57. Then the question arises as to who violated the rules of Twitter. Is it just from Anand Ranganathan’s tweet? Or from the order in the import?
After this incident, the demand for Anand Ranganathan to be brought back to Twitter has increased. People started demanding their return by tweeting #BringBackAnandRanganathan from their Twitter handles. People appealed to Twitter, calling them the most sensible voice, that they did not violate any rules. Bring them back.
One overheard Anand Ranganathan’s account block saying that the verse of the Quran should not be put on Twitter, because Twitter considers it a hatspeech. One user described Twitter as a tool of the Left. Another netizen asked if it became blasphemous to quote the verse of the Quran?
At the same time, Dr. Ranganathan himself while talking about the incident that happened to him in a debate in Times Now, mentioned some old issues when the Islamic crowd erupted because of the Prophet’s name. He recounts the book of Rangeela Rasool and tells how a fanatic named Ilmuddin killed him and Jinnah later fought the case of the same killer.
This is not the first time, he says. Kamlesh Tiwari’s murder was also being demanded by hundreds of Muslims including Congress MLA. He asks if it is not intolerance to be flared by a post? Referring to a journalist named Sajid Bukhari, Anand Ranganathan says that he too said, “When it comes to the Prophet who I am proud of intolerant.”
Anand Ranganathan draws attention to the attack on the Sharli Abdo magazine and quotes Owaisi in the Kamlesh Tiwari case, in which Owaisi has abused Kamlesh Tiwari, saying that he has invited misfortune for him, later he was killed.