Media

One of the strategies employed by DW News to give political colour to religious violence against Hindus was the frequent reference to India.

Rajdeep Sardesai brazened out, "Are we saying my friends that whenever a heinous crime occurs in this country, the chief minister must resign? That's a dangerous political game to play."

As Hindus gets slaughtered in Bangladesh, Qatar funded Al Jazeera attempted to discredit the persecution by crying Islamophobia

Downplaying the anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh, The New Yorker’s reporter Isaac Chotiner said that there are ‘fears’ that Hindus have been targeted in this ‘revolution. This comes despite the fact that more than 205 attacks on Hindus by Islamist mobs have been reported.

Manisha Pande of Newslaundry stated that it wasn't as if the cameraman was following Shazia Ilmi to her bathroom or bedroom.

ABC and several other media outlets are shrewdly trying to establish an apocryphal narrative that Hindus in Bangladesh are being persecuted not for their religious identity but for the alleged support for Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League.

Bangladesh Home Affairs Adviser Brigadier General (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain warned that the media outlets would face closure if they indulged in flattery/sycophancy or provided misleading news.

"Are people being killed? If yes, then how many have been killed? We have not received this number yet," Akash Banerjee floated rhetorical questions to avoid holding Islamists accountable for attacking Hindus.

While Hindus across Bangladesh are being attacked, their houses being plundered, and temples being vandalised, Al Jazeera attempted to whitewash the communal angle in the ongoing anti-Hindu pogrom by claiming that only those Hindus associated with Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League are being targeted.

Bangladeshi journalist Sajen Shamsuddoza watered down the attacks on Hindus and claimed those took place to “malign the achievements of the student-led movement”.