Media around the world identify US-based sexual predator Dr. Oumair Aejaz as ‘Indian’

The media, especially the western media, has its own ways of hiding the religious identity of Muslims when they are involved in criminal activities and highlighting that they are doing something positive by chance. The world is in shock after a 40-year-old doctor from Michigan, Oumair Aejaz, was arrested in the US after being accused of multiple sex crimes including taking thousands of nude photographs of women and children over the past six years. A significant section of the media even in this heinous crime managed to stoke stereotypes against Indians and hide the religious identity of the perpetrator.

In a blatant display of hypocrisy, a large section of the media across the world emphasizes the religious identity of a Muslim when he/she does something great or decent, but downplays or obscures the same identity when he/she engages in criminal activities. While the foreign media usually refers to the accused persons involved in such cases as Asians or South Asians, this time the emphasis is explicitly on his/her Indian origin.

Unfortunately, even the Indian media followed the line of the Western media which was meant to tarnish India’s image globally and reported about Oumair Aejaz as an “Indian doctor”. Interestingly, there can be associations of Muslim doctors and their religious identity can be highlighted if they do something praiseworthy but the same cannot be done with a Muslim doctor like Oumair Aejaz who commits heinous crimes.

The headline of the report published by South China Morning Post (SCMP)), a Hong Kong news channel owned by the Alibaba Group, reads: “An Indian doctor in the US took thousands of photographs of naked adults and children, some as young as 5 cm.

The International Business HoursAn American online newspaper also chose to call Oumair Aejaz an “Indian doctor”.

Meanwhile, a WION The headline of the report reads: “’13,000 videos on one disk’, Indian doctor jailed in US for recording nude videos of children, women”.

In the same way, CoinThe headline of the article reads: “Indian doctor films naked children and adults in US, arrested; thousands of videos found in his Michigan home”.

IndiaTV reported: “’Disturbing on many levels’: Indian doctor arrested in US for taking photos of naked adults and children”

Another leading Indian media outlet IndiaToday reported: “Indian doctor in US makes thousands of nude videos of children, women and arrests”.

At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be much of a problem here, since the perpetrator Oumair Aejaz is indeed of Indian origin, but the emphasis on his Indian connection is the problem. Just look at how the Indian and foreign media report on incidents where the “Good Samaritan” happens to be a Muslim.

In 2017, Australian news outlet The weekly times reported: “Muslim doctor saves man’s life”.

In 2016 the Times of India reported on a Muslim girl who saved her Hindu classmate from kidnappers, while there was no need to mention the girl’s Muslim identity, only to talk about her brave act.

Just a few days ago, a Pakistani newspaper published AajTVboasted in its report how a “Heroic Muslim” saved people in the knife attack in London. However, to demonstrate its hypocrisy, the same publication chose to call Oumair Aejaz an “Indian doctor” in its report and failed to emphasize his Muslim identity. Interestingly, the same Pakistani media called javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra’s gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics a “victory of South Asia,” but when a Muslim man Oumair Aejaz commits a heinous crime in Michigan, they dismiss him as an “Indian doctor.”

In January last year, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), a ‘human rights’ group, reported on an incident in which a man named Tipu Sultan saved the life of a girl named Monali Kaushal as she was drowning in Madhya Pradesh. “Muslim man risks life to save Hindu girl from drowning in Madhya Pradesh,” CJP reported even though there was no need to emphasize the religious identity of the rescuer.

Another CJP report claimed how a “Muslim woman” saved the lives of many people through posthumous organ donation. However, the CJP failed to mention that donating organs is forbidden in Islam and that only receiving is allowed.

In July last year, Turkish news outlet Anadolu reported on a French Muslim who “risked his life” to save people from a fire in Romans-sur-Isere in southeastern France.

It must also be recalled how the Indian mainstream media emphasized the Muslim identity of rat miners who rescued 41 workers stranded in the Uttarakhand tunnel last year, while several Hindu rat miners were also involved in the rescue mission. The left-wing media selectively emphasized the religious identity of Muslim rescuers, making them national heroes, while de-emphasizing the religious identity of Hindu rescuers.

Glorify Muslims When Something Good Happens, Hide Their Religious Identity When They Are Involved in Crimes: The Hypocrisy of Global Traditional Media

Ironically, it is the very same section of the foreign and Indian media that leaves no opportunity to glorify Muslim identity whenever something good happens, even when religiosity has little or nothing to do with the good deeds of the people, that also engages in whitewashing the crimes committed by Muslims. A classic example of this can be seen in their coverage of anti-Hindu pogroms in Bangladesh, where Hindus are attacked, murdered, raped and their homes and temples are vandalized, Hindu officials are forced to resign by Islamists, simply out of hatred towards Hindus, but the media like Al Jazeera, NYT, ABC, etc. dismissed these incidents as “politically motivated acts of revenge”. Moreover, these hypocrites of the highest order emphasized the Muslim identity of those who formed the farcical “human chains” to ‘protect’ Hindu temples, but failed to ‘verify’ whether the attacks on Hindus were motivated by Islamism.

It is clear that the media sympathizing with Islamists are under the illusion that there are only good Muslims and the rest are only bad people, and they want to reinforce this. Even though they murder and rape non-Muslims in the name of their religion and Allah.

When Muslims achieve significant success or contribute greatly to society, their Islamic identity is often emphasized, even if their good deeds have nothing to do with their faith. This narrative framing is intended to dispel negative perceptions and promote the idea that Muslims are integral and constructive members of Western society. However, when it comes to labeling Islamic terrorists as what they truly are, the same media outlets promote a lie of “terrorism has no religion.” Apparently, the media and left-wing liberals worldwide want the world to deny the Islamic threat that is knocking on their door.

The media referred to British grooming gangs as ‘Asian’, when they explicitly targeted non-Muslim girls because of their perverse religious extremism.

Even with Britain’s notorious grooming gangs, the mainstream media referred to them as “Asian,” despite the fact that it was their Muslim identity that led them to groom non-Muslim girls. Take for example the headline of this Telegraph report, “Telford scandal: More than 1,000 girls abused and raped by Asian gangs while police looked the other way”. All perpetrators in this grooming ring were Muslims, mainly of Pakistani descent. They mainly chose non-Muslim, white girls who “groomed” them, sexually abused them on multiple occasions and threatened them with death if they revealed their actions to anyone. Yet the media failed to cover up the religious and racial motives behind the crime, or deliberately covered them up.

Whether the cases of grooming and sexual exploitation occurred in Rotherham, Telford or Rochdale, the pattern remained the same: non-Muslim girls, including Hindu, Sikh and white Christian girls, were systematically targeted by Pakistani Muslims in the UK because of their religiously and racially motivated hatred of non-Muslims. While pro-Muslim bias is an obvious reason for downplaying these cases for years or hiding the religious motivation behind the crime, another major reason for the cover-up was the fear of offending the perpetually offended Muslim community.

By referring to Muslim groomers as “Asian grooming gangs” or simply their nationality, and by avoiding explicit mention of their Muslim identity, the media perpetuates a generalization that unfairly implicates other Asian communities who have been victimized by these Muslim grooming gangs, while simultaneously avoiding uncomfortable discussions about the specific religious factors involved.

The idea behind selectively emphasizing the religious identity of Muslims is apparently to create a distorted picture, where the positive aspects or deeds are linked to the religion but the negative aspects are disconnected from it. This contributes to the creation of a one-sided narrative that only those who do good deeds are ‘true Muslims’, while the predators, terrorists etc. are not true Muslims even if they quote that they carry the Quran in one hand and a gun in the other to eliminate non-Muslims, as seen in the case of ISIS executing kafirs.

The Muslim grooming gangs in the UK have been shielded by the media and pro-Islamic politicians by portraying them as “Asian” or “South Asian grooming gangs”. The religiously motivated attacks by the Palestinian Islamic terror group Hamas on Jews and Israel are portrayed as “resistance,” Islamist attackers are labeled as “Bhatke huye naujawan” (misleading the youth), and grooming Jihad targeting Hindu women in India is roundly dismissed as “hoax,” “fiction,” “right-wing conspiracy theory,” and the like. Currently, the media is obfuscating Oumair Aejaz’s Muslim identity and portraying him as an “Indian doctor.” If the person had happened to be a Hindu, the left-wing media outlets would have somehow linked the crime to his religious identity and even his political leanings. But since a Muslim cannot be bad just because he is a Muslim, Aejaz and other criminals like him are labeled “Asian,” “South Asian,” or “Indian,” according to the left-wing Islamic propagandists.

Ironically, Muslims who openly proclaim their religiosity in everything and anything do not want the criminals and terrorists who carry out religiously motivated attacks on non-Muslims to be associated with Islam. However, these people prioritize Islam over the country, as was recently said by an Islamic maulana on national television.

“इस्लाम कहता है दीन पहले है देश बाद में”- मौलाना photo.twitter.com/n4so3AESN6

— HinduPost (@hindupost) July 10, 2024

If religion is more important to Muslims than country, shouldn’t the media also take this approach and report “Muslim doctor” instead of “Indian doctor” as in the case of Oumair Aejaz? However, the media decided not to mention the predator’s name in their headlines, but only in the body of the story, so that the focus remains on how an Indian doctor turned out to be a criminal, but not necessarily a Muslim doctor.