{"id":169440,"date":"2025-02-20T09:36:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T04:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=169440"},"modified":"2025-02-20T10:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T05:38:12","slug":"yogis-remarks-against-islam-urdu-reflect-his-deep-seated-islamophobia-ruhullah-mehdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/02\/20\/yogis-remarks-against-islam-urdu-reflect-his-deep-seated-islamophobia-ruhullah-mehdi.html","title":{"rendered":"Yogi\u2019s remarks against Islam, Urdu reflect his deep-seated Islamophobia: Ruhullah Mehdi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-169441 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/Srinagar-MP-Aga-Syed-Ruhullah-Mehdi-300x169.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>Srinagar: Senior leader of the National Conference and Indian parliament member from Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Agha Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, has condemned Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for his anti-Islam and anti-Urud remarks, terming them a reflection of the latter\u2019s \u201cdeep-seated Islamophobia\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, in a post on X, Mehdi took a dig at Adityanath, saying, \u201cUttar Pradesh chief minister\u2019s vile remarks \u2014 using the slur \u2018kathmulla\u2019 and deriding maulvis \u2014 are latest examples of his deep-seated Islamophobia.\u201d Mehdi also called the Uttar Pradesh chief minister an \u201cembodiment of RSS\u2019s ideology of hate, division, and dehumanisation of Muslims\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuslims in Uttar Pradesh deserve better than an RSS bigot,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Adityanath, known for his anti-Muslim and Islamophobic rhetoric, made the remarks during a heated exchange with Samajwadi Party leader the Leader of the Opposition in the assembly, Mata Prasad Pandey, on the floor of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly. Pandey demanded including Urdu translation after Speaker Satish Mahana announced that proceedings would be available in four regional languages \u2014 Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Braj and Bundeli \u2014 as well as English.<\/p>\n<p>Pandey argued that Urdu must also be included if English finds a place. In response, Yogi claimed they (Muslims) want their children to learn Urdu and become \u2018maulvis\u2019 and promote \u2018kathmullah-pan\u2019 (fanaticism).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Senior leader of the National Conference and Indian parliament member from Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Agha Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, has condemned Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for his anti-Islam and anti-Urud remarks, terming them a reflection of the latter\u2019s \u201cdeep-seated Islamophobia\u201d. According to Kashmir Media Service, in a post on X, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-169440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/Srinagar-MP-Aga-Syed-Ruhullah-Mehdi-e1757600881950.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169442,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169440\/revisions\/169442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}