A news channel telecasted the ply of Muslims in this country stating: Is the urban educated class anti-Muslim?
Before I further express my views on this telecast, I would like to make myself very clear that I have no intentions to hurt the religious sentiments of any segment of this society.
Coming back to the point, issue was that Muslims are finding it difficult to obtain a house on rent. The news channel expressed it with a grief and seemed to be in full support.
If a house is built spending lakhs together, then it’s obviously not the choice of these private news channels or any Tom, Dick or Harry’s wish for renting it. The owner of the house is free to rent it to any person belonging to any caste, any religion and any sex. The paid media, looking for the sympathy of a particular community, to influence government’s support with this particular community, has got no rights to create hype on this matter.
Being Hindu, I too was denied a room/house for rent because of a simple reason of being non-veggie. For few, a major concern was my marital status: Single. There may be numerous reasons for not renting a house to any person. It’s obviously inappropriate to project it as a grievance of a particular community.
To be precise, if I were to rent a house, I would have definitely not allowed my tenant to bring/eat beef in my house, inspite of belonging to any religion. It hurts my religious sentiments. Secondly, if a bomb blasts in my city, I would definitely not like myself to be interrogated. Why is it always that the religious sentiments of only a particular community are our media’s concern?
It’s high time for the paid media to shut up and look out for better deals.
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