As the Taliban captured Afghanistan, usual suspects on English and Hindi TV news channels found another excuse to hate on Muslims in India and Afghanistan. Arnab Goswami even ranted against international news networks CNN and BBC, which have brought us ground reports from the frontlines.
Times Now and Zee News panellists got away with spewing bigotry against Muslims, aided by so-called representative voices of Indian Muslims who praised the Taliban. The circus was complete this week.
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