Senior anchorperson Gharidah Farooqi, who hosts the current affairs program G for Gharidah, shared her thoughts on Twitter regarding animal sacrifice on Eid-ul Azha that fumed the netizens following which the host played woman card to guard trolling.
Gharidah shared her views about sacrificing animals and urged the people to embrace the philosophy behind the divine message instead of slaughtering them.
Spare an animal’s life if you can.
Embrace the philosophy behind the incident and the divine message, in your life 🙏🏼
This day is not to mark meat eating.
Love animals. Let them live.
Eid Mubarak ✨💐
— Gharidah Farooqi (@GFarooqi) July 21, 2021
Her erroneous thoughts drew huge backlash and the anchorperson was trolled for sharing an ill-founded post.
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A large number of social media users popped up on the post to remind her of the actualities and also nudged her about her previous posts related to food involving meat.
Is this you?
Nihari and Biryani lover 😂🖐🏻 pic.twitter.com/hqJ3fKtXFh— Mian Sb 🍂 (@AdilJamalArain) July 21, 2021
Gharidah Farooqi clapped back to criticism and maintained that it happens only in Pakistan that a woman is harassed and labeled secular for commenting on animals’ sacrifice.
Only in Pakistan you’d get labelled secular, foreign funded western/Indian agent, get abused, harassed and even worse, receive death threats merely for talking about ANIMAL RIGHTS and to speak your mind, simply to have an opinion cause you are a woman – not acceptable. Wow!
— Gharidah Farooqi (@GFarooqi) July 23, 2021
Journalist Awais Yousaf Zai replied to her comment that Islam speaks of animal rights the most.
اسلام نے سب سے زیادہ جانوروں کے حقوق کی بات کی۔ قربانی دینی فریضہ ہے جس سے جانوروں کے حقوق متاثر نہیں ہوتے۔ روزانہ میٹ شاپس سے بھی تو گوشت خریدا جاتا ہے۔ مغرب میں تو مشینوں کے ذریعے روزانہ ہزاروں جانور بغیر تکبیر پڑھے ذبح کیے جاتے ہیں جن کے برگرز مشہور فوڈ چین پر فروخت ہوتے ہیں https://t.co/i8JnSj7H8b
— Awais Yousaf Zai (@awaisReporter) July 23, 2021
He added that animals are slaughtered daily for household and commercial consumption including in the west.
A number of users criticized the anchor for her hypocrisy and reminded her of the incident when she was alleged for enslaving a young girl.
Jab apki hypocrisy pakri jaay magar aap gharida faruqi hon: pic.twitter.com/hpupka5gFU
— Ahmed Ali Abbasi (@ahmedwereport) July 23, 2021
Only in Pakistan you can torture a underage maid, ask her parents for ransom, threaten them and still keep your job&freedom. You can luv beef nihari on 364 days but when people of major religion perform their religious practice, u have to act like a right-wing Western politician.
— Schrödinger kurt 🇵🇰 (@InarcissistKurt) July 23, 2021
It had nothing to do with you being a woman. People would’ve had the same reaction, probably worse if you were a man. Remember, this was also a holy cow 😬
— Arhum Tariq Butt (@Arhumtb) July 23, 2021