Last Sunday, dozens of Muslim women in India found they had been put up for sale online.
Hana Khan, a BBC insider on the list, discovered that even though her friend sent her a message on Twitter, she was alerted. This tweet took her to "Sulli Deals," an online application and website that took public photos of women and created a profile that described women as "presents of the day. There is a picture of an unknown woman on the homepage of the app. On the next page, Khan looked at his friend's photo. Then she looked at herself on a website on the Internet. "I counted 83 names. There could have been more," he told the BBC. "They took a picture of me on Twitter with my buyer's name written on it. It takes 20 days to apply on foot, and we don't even understand it now. I am sick. The app is designed to provide buyers with the risk of buying "sulli," a derogatory slang term used by right-wing Hindu trolls to refer to Muslim women. Due to tendering reasons, there was no actual auction. Respectful, humble, and modest. Ms. Khan said that she was attacked because of her religious beliefs. She said: "I am a Muslim who has seen and heard of. "They want to silence us. After the complaint, the platform hosting the delivery application opened immediately. The company said in a statement: "After reviewing information about such activities that violate our policies, we have suspended payments to customers.
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Famous citizens, activists, and leaders also openly opposed the persecution. The police said that they had begun an investigation, but would not disclose who might be behind the statement. The creator of the app used a fictional character instead of the social network Hasiba Amin. The coordinator of the opposition Congress Party accused some of the messages that often targeted Muslims, especially Muslim women, and claimed that they supported right-wing politics. According to Amin, this is not the first time that Muslim women have become such victims. When Muslims celebrate the Eid al-Adha in May, YouTube organized a special live Eid al-Fitr auction for Muslim women from India and Pakistan, letting their body parts describe sexual acts and rape threats," Khan said.
Ms. Amin told me that earlier that day, an anonymous account tried to "auction" her on Twitter. Several other people, including @sullideals101, who was later dismissed, also joined them, "insulting, embarrassing me and describing violent sexual behavior. She believed that those who tried to auction her on Twitter were the people behind Shirley. application. Deals and YouTube channels, which have been removed from the platform. An account that claims to support the application and will be backed up and running soon.
Activists said that online violence "can demean, humiliate, intimidate and ultimately silence women. Last week, more than 200 well-known actors, musicians, journalists, and government officials from all over the world issued an open letter calling on Facebook’s CEOs: Google, TikTok, and Twitter to make women’s safety a "priority. "The Internet is the city square of the 21st century," they wrote. “This is a place for discussion, community building, product sales, and reputation building. However, the level of online abuse means that these digital platforms are not safe for too many women. The past year has shown that the more open a woman is, the more open she is The more attacks there are. In the United Kingdom and the United States, black women are more likely to be persecuted, while women from religious minorities and disadvantaged castes are more likely to be persecuted in India. Indian writer and former Amnesty International official Nasiya Elu Nazia Erum stated that there are very few Muslim women and women who are “bullied and deceived” on social media. This is a deliberate and planned attack trying to change the microphone from an educated Muslim against Islamophobia The women took it away. It was an attempt to silence them. It embarrassed them and took away the space they occupied," he said. Ms. Amin said that bullies "are not afraid because they know they can escape punishment. He pointed to several recent incidents of atrocities against Muslims instigated by supporters of the ruling BJP Recently appeared in a viral video. year. How did he cooperate with many Hindus to "shoot Muslims". For women whose personalities have been taken over and used by the Sulli Deals app, the struggle for justice may be long and difficult, but they are determined to make it happen. "If the police cannot find someone to sell, I will go to court," Khan said. Follow it to the end
