Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli has threatened to "rape" his 10-month-old daughter for supporting Muslim player Muhammad Shami.
Several Indian Twitter users said that after the defeat in Pakistan, Virat Kohli was threatened after extremist Hindus criticized the Indian team and especially the Muslim player Muhammad Shami for supporting him. Kohli and Anushka’s 10-month-old daughter is getting rape threats because he decided to stand by his Muslim teammate, call out bigotry, and say discrimination on the basis of religion is wrong.
A 10-month-old child.
This is the India that we let happen.
Mohammad Shami was heavily criticized as a traitor while the Indian team was defeated by the Pakistani cricket team by 10 wickets on October 24.
After the defeat, extremists in India called the only Muslim player Muhammad Shami a traitor and mocked him for leaving for Pakistan. This makes me want to puke. Rape threats to a toddler from the RW because @imVkohli did the decent thing called out bigotry & supported his teammate. These bigots belong in jail pic.twitter.com/WaTLjIQCDb
Many political, social and showbiz personalities came forward to criticize Mohammad Shami and Virat Kohli also defended him.
When Virat Kohli also sided with Mohammad Shami, an extremist threatened to 'rape' his daughter.
Content creator and journalist Andre Borges said in his tweet that Vimaka, the 10-month-old daughter of Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma, was threatened with rape after supporting Mohammad Shami. RW trolls की देशभक्ति 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 https://t.co/Cao3cP9zmy
"All this is happening in India, which we ourselves have driven to such hatred," he wrote, lamenting the threat to the girl.
Female journalist Swati Chatterjee shared a screenshot of the account threatening Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli's underage daughter and demanded that the man be jailed.
He wrote that the act of threatening his young daughter was hurting him and all this was done because Virat Kohli sided with his teammate.
In addition, many people, like Mohammad Shami, also got angry with Virat Kohli and used inappropriate and harsh language against him. Last match: Arrest these anti-nationals who are cheering on India's loss
Today's match: We are happy that India lost, this is what Kohli deserved for being secular and woke. pic.twitter.com/lmhFJkp4gs
Actress Swara Bhaskar also tweeted about the hateful online campaign launched against Virat Kohli and shared screen shots of the tweets against Virat.
The hate campaign against Virat Kohli intensified on October 31 when India lost its second match to New Zealand.
India have lost both their matches in the T20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which has drawn sharp criticism from the team. Bigotry first, nation second. pic.twitter.com/uqFzU4sf8l
