Everyone except Taliban killed Danish Siddiqui

Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui on Friday was killed by the Taliban terrorists in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar after he had been embedded with the Afghan special forces to cover the clash between forces and Taliban fighters. However, the liberal brigade of the country, infamous for churning bogus narratives has shifted the blame of Danish’s death from Taliban to some internet trolls.

Ravish Kumar, the Magsaysay award winner, known for his alleged ‘fearless’ journalism could not take the name of Taliban in his obituary post for the photojournalist. Rather, Ravish seemed more intent on cussing the bullet which killed Danish.

Rana Ayyub, the Washington Post intern who appeared to be a friend of Danish, similarly couldn’t muster the courage to call out the Muslim overlords in the Taliban who killed her colleague. Speaking truth to power certainly works in enigmatic ways when Islamic terrorism is involved.

Congress scion Rahul Gandhi who has lately become a full-time Twitter troll refrained from bringing Taliban into the conversation.

Nearly every mourning piece for Danish carried a similar undertone. Those who knew or not knew him on the left side of the political spectrum were sad for his death but for some mysterious reasons could not call out his murderers.

The Wire journalist Arfa Khanum Sherwani, who has on multiple instances claimed that we are living in a fascist state and the PM is a dictator could not write a line for the Taliban jihadis sitting and killing innocent people in Afghanistan.

However, soon after tweeting the mourning post, normal service resumed for Sherwani and she managed to bring Right-Wing netizens into the discussion and somehow managed to portray that Indian RW killed Danish. It is pertinent to note that till the time of publishing the article, Sherwani still had not blamed the Taliban for the killing.

An accused in the doxing case, Mohammed Zubair did not even beat around the bush to assert that it was the RW that had killed Danish. His vitriol for a section of the public was on full display while the ‘good samaritans’ in Taliban were left alone by the supposed ‘fact-checker’.

Shekar Gupta’s protégé Zainab Sikander, known for her anti-India posts made the discussion about Rohit Sardana and Danish Siddiqui and who was the better journalist out of the two.

Apparently, clicking photos does not help in creating narratives but holding news talk shows does. And while the allegiances of both departed men can be debated and argued, the fact that one was killed by the Taliban and yet his supposed friends could not call out the killers is a reason enough to understand whose allegiance one would rather prefer.

A netizen posited a hypothetical situation that perfectly summarized the problem with the obituary posts for Danish. She tweeted, “Suppose I just landed from Mars. And hypothetically I was given a Twitter account where I only follow liberal and Jihadi handles since they often overlap. Do you think I would have known who killed Danish Siddiqui?”

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Despite Danish’s unethical journalism when he posted and sold photos of burning pyres of the Indian crematoriums, his death is a grim reminder of the dark, bleak, dystopian situation in Afghanistan. Instead of squabbling with Internet trolls, the left-liberal journalists should call out Danish’s slaughterers without any filter and that presumably will be the most meaningful way to honour his memory. But alas, hatred and politics take precedence here as well. And did we mention, the killers were hardcore Islamic terrorists?