{"id":25666,"date":"2020-05-18T16:50:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T11:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/indian-worker-in-uae-fired-for-islamobhobic-social-media-posts\/"},"modified":"2020-05-18T16:50:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T11:20:30","slug":"indian-worker-in-uae-fired-for-islamobhobic-social-media-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=25666","title":{"rendered":"Indian worker in UAE fired for islamobhobic social media posts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Brajkishore Gupta was fired without notice for calling Indian Muslims \u2018coronavirus spreaders\u2019 and hailing the Delhi riots as \u2018divine justice\u2019 in his Facebook posts, the Gulf News reported<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/indian-worker-in-uae-fired-for-islamobhobic-social-media-posts\/article31613751.ece\">PTI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Indian working in a mining company in the UAE has become the latest expatriate to have lost his job for \u201cIslamophobic\u201d social media posts, a media report said on May 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brajkishore Gupta was fired without notice for calling Indian Muslims \u2018coronavirus spreaders\u2019 and hailing the Delhi riots as \u2018divine justice\u2019 in his Facebook posts, the&nbsp;<em>Gulf News<\/em>&nbsp;reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Gupta, who is from Chapra, Bihar, was employed by Stevin Rock, a mining company headquartered in Ras Al Khaimah city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis isolated incident involving a junior employee was investigated and dealt with immediately, resulting in the termination without notice of this person\u2019s employment with Stevin Rock,\u201d said the company\u2019s business development and exploration manager Jean-Francois Milian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur company policy supports the direction of the UAE government in promoting tolerance and equality and strongly renouncing racism and discrimination and we have sent communications to all of our employees irrespective of their religious or ethnic background reminding them that any such behaviour is unacceptable and will lead to immediate dismissal,\u201d Mr. Milian was quoted as saying in the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three Indians based in the UAE were either fired or suspended from their jobs for islamophobic posts on social media early this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On April 20, India\u2019s ambassador to the UAE Pavan Kapoor had warned Indian expatriates against such behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIndia and UAE share the value of non-discrimination on any grounds. Discrimination is against our moral fabric and the Rule of law. Indian nationals in the UAE should always remember this,\u201d he said in a tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, Sharjah-based businessman Sohan Roy had to apologise for \u201cunintentionally hurting religious sentiments\u201d through his poem, which alluded to a Muslim religious group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In March, chef Trilok Singh was fired from a restaurant in Dubai for an online threat against a student in Delhi over her views on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brajkishore Gupta was fired without notice for calling Indian Muslims \u2018coronavirus spreaders\u2019 and hailing the Delhi riots as \u2018divine justice\u2019 in his Facebook posts, the Gulf News reported. PTI An Indian working in a mining company in the UAE has become the latest expatriate to have lost his job for \u201cIslamophobic\u201d social media posts, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}