A deleted tweet on Azaan landed singer Sonu Nigam in the soup while being stranded in Dubai amid coronavirus global lockdown. The Mumbai resident was paying a visit to his son in the Gulf country.
Screenshots of a three-year-old deleted tweet were shared over the past few days with people in Dubai by tweetaratis, asking the police to take action against him. In April 2017, Sonu wrote on Twitter that despite being a non-Muslim, he is woken up by the Azaan. "When will this religiousness end in India," he had written in a tweet after which he had faced backlash. The famous Bollywood singer had also said that the 'noise from loudspeakers' of temples and gurudwaras also added to the noise pollution.
The singer has deleted his Twitter handle after the backlash in 2017, saying that it was a nuisance. However, the comment has resurfaced over the past few days.
Earlier, UAE princess Hend Al Qassimi had taken a strong notice of Islamophobia on social media and had called out a series of tweets by a user named Saurabh Upadhyay. He had posted tweets attacking Muslims over the Tablighi Jamaat congregation held in March in Delhi that led to a surge of coronavirus cases in India. Princess Qassimi shared the screenshots of his tweets. She warned that those engaging in racism and Islamophobia will have to pay the penalty and will be made to leave UAE.
