Indian Army Wins Gold at Rio For Shooting Unarmed Civilians in the Eye.

It's all about a storm. Yes, a storm and caused only by one tweet. Pakistani Journalist Omer Qureshi,  is pretty popular on Twitter  with 141K followers so when he tweeted about India's abysmal performance at the Rio Olympics, his tweet stirred up a storm in India.

“Finally one of the 119 competitors that India sent to Rio has won a medal – a bronze – now see how they portray it as if they won 20 golds,” tweeted Quraishi. This one tweet caused an uproar in India and left the Indians bristling with anger."

 <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">And going strong <a href="https://t.co/9wfcARgO3C">pic.twitter.com/9wfcARgO3C</a></p>&mdash; omar r quraishi (@omar_quraishi) <a href="https://twitter.com/omar_quraishi/status/766904825753833472">August 20, 2016</a></blockquote>
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According to Khaleej Times, "Pakistan journalist Omar Quraishi mocked the celebrations of Indians on Twitter. Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan took to Twitter to answer Quraishi's criticisms."

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But take it easy Omer Quraishi, you are not the only one under fire. The Indian Journalist Shobha De has also been similarly bad mouthed. She  has also  received a lot of flak on social networking sites because of her comments on the Indian Olympic contingent's performance at Rio. Her tweet stated, "Goal of Team India at the Olympics: Rio jao. Selfies lo. Khaali haat wapas aao. What a waste of money and opportunity."

 

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The tweet controversy has highlighted the ever rampant intolerance in India which has skyrocketed since the RSS and BJP parties have dominated Indian politics. What to speak of Omer Quraishi and Shobha De, extremism in India didn't even let Gandhi live.  

nevertheless, Quraishi continued with more evidence of Indian intolerance. But this time, Senior Bachan did not reply.
[<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">JUST IN: The Indian Army wins Gold at the Rio Olympics in the newly-introduced sport &#39;Shooting Unarmed Civilians in the Eye&#39;</p>&mdash; omar r quraishi (@omar_quraishi) <a href="https://twitter.com/omar_quraishi/status/766198351540936704">August 18, 2016</a></blockquote>
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The Indian Army wins Gold at the Rio Olympics in the newly-introduced sport 'Shooting Unarmed Civilians in the Eye'

— omar r quraishi (@omar_quraishi) August 18, 2016