Meta has removed OpIndia’s video on Kashmiri journalist Gafira Qadir’s BBC video that claimed she cannot find a house to rent in Delhi.
Mark Zuckerberg-owned Meta has removed OpIndia’s video that was a commentary on BBC’s video of a Kashmiri journalist who claimed Kashmiri students and professionals working in Delhi are unable to find houses to rent in Delhi, blaming Islamophobia for it.
The concerned video was uploaded on YouTube at 7 am on March 9. At 10.30 am, the same video was shared on Meta’s Facebook. Within seconds of hitting the ‘publish’ button, Meta sent a notification saying the video had been banned.
The reason that Meta cited for not allowing the video to be shown on their platform is strange. It claims the video violates their ‘community standards’ rule that forbids content that their algorithm deems ‘Dangerous organisation or individual’. As examples of the ‘dangerous organisation or individual’, it stated they do not allow ‘glorifying a terrorist attack’, ‘supporting violence against a particular group of people’, and ‘supporting or promoting harmful criminal activity like human trafficking.’
However, the OpIndia video does neither of the above. It only tried to question and explain the ‘phobia’ aspect of the Islamophobia claim made in the BBC video featuring Gafira Qadir.
Our video had asked why Qadir, or the BBC, didn’t try to find out ‘why’ the people of Delhi might be hesitant to rent flats out to certain individuals. It had asked whether the BBC forgot that just months ago, a doctor from Al-Falah University blew himself up near the Red Fort, at the heart of the capital, killing over a dozen people and wounding over 50 people. Or that the same doctor was running a terrorist group that had planned similar attacks, and that all those individuals, plotting and planning to cause bomb blasts, were staying on rent, not so far away from Delhi. It tried to discuss that the house-owners in Delhi may have some legitimate reasons to be careful about renting their property out.
The OpIndia video raised legitimate concerns regarding the one-sided victimhood peddling of ‘Islamophobia’ without scrutinising why the ‘phobia’ exists. It had questioned the deliberate omission of recent incidents that caused fear among the people.
The video can be watched on X here.
Why wasn’t BBC's Kashmiri “journalist” able to get a room in Delhi? What is scaring Hindu landlords?
— OpIndia.com (@OpIndia_com) March 9, 2026
Muslims carried out blasts at the Red Fort, hid in Batla House, and attacked the Indian Parliament… how did these incidents create such a fear among Hindus?
@ashu_nauty… pic.twitter.com/0WC8Hig66M
The OpIndia video neither peddled hatred against Muslims nor tried to insinuate that Kashmiris should not be allowed to rent houses in Delhi. It only questioned the one-sided narrative that peddles victimhood for one particular community while totally ignoring the other side of the story.
