‘For publicity you taking part in debate and doing disservice to your own community’, says Ajit Anjum after Shoaib ‘slapped’ on TV debate on 72 hoors

‘For publicity you taking part in debate and doing disservice to your own community’: Ajit Anjum slams Shoaib ‘slapped’ on TV debate on 72 hoors

After a video of Okhla-based Shoaib Jamai being slapped by a co-panelist went viral on the social media, many netizens are writing on the issue. TV journalist turned YouTuber Ajit Anjum slammed Shoaib for taking part in such debates.

Anjum tweeted in Hindi: “You are doing disservice to your own community by being part of a sponsored stunt for publicity. People like you are also the characters in the script being written to vitiate the atmosphere in the country. You sit at home for a few months. You don’t know what you want to achieve by participating in abuse and kick-fist debates on channels.”

आप पब्लिसिटी के लिए प्रायोजित स्टंट का हिस्सा बनकर अपनी ही क़ौम का नुक़सान कर रहे हो . देश में माहौल ख़राब करने की जो पटकथा लिखी जा रही है , उसके किरदार आप जैसे लोग भी हैं . कुछ महीने में आप घर बैठिए . चैनलों पर गाली -गलौज और लात- घूसे वाली बहसों में हिस्सा लेकर आप पता नहीं क्या हासिल करना चाहते हो ….

Fact checker and Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair tweeted: “I don’t have any personal enmity against you & other ‘Maulanas’ who participate in TV debates on almost every topic in the world. My only request to you to is to stop going to Godi media debates, You & many other ‘Muslim Scholars’ have become a laughing stock.”

According to a freepressjournal.in report, Shoaib, who calls himself an Islamist scholar and is a regular on TV news debates at prime time, was allegedly beaten up on live TV by woman co-panelist Subuhi Khan and forced to flee the show.

A video clip of the incident is now going viral on social media platforms.

Asif Md Khan said there is a design as some in the media fan communalism by inviting such Muslims whom they can humiliate and by doing show they paint the whole community in bad shape under a pre-planned agenda. Khan said people should avoid such debates.

Years ago, a video had surfaced on the social media where Khan is seen reprimanding a Maulana, a regular TV debater, for being part of a pre-planned game plan by the corporate run mainstream media to fan hatred against Muslims by holding debate on irrelevant and religious issues.

In 2022, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board issued an appeal to scholars and intellectuals of the community to not participate in television debates that are meant to insult Islam and Muslims.

Its statement had said the intention of the TV debates in the country is not reach a constructive consensus but is to ridicule and defame Islam.

In order to gather legitimacy, channels need Muslims to participate in their programmes and Islamic scholars become “victims of such agendas”, said the statement.

“If we boycott such programmes and TV channels, not only will it affect their Television Rating Points negatively, but they will also fail in achieving their desired outcome through these debates,” the Muslim body said.

However, it appears that the appeal has fallen on deaf ears of many as attention seekers and self-proclaimed intellectuals and scholars have continued to participate in TV debates, said a resident.