Surya tweeted “95% of Arab women have never had an orgasm in the last few 100 yrs! Every mother has produced kids as an act of sex & not love.”
Bengaluru| BJP MP Tejasvi Surya on Sunday provoked a social media storm after a tweet by him about Arab women dated 2015 went massively viral across the platform.
“95% of Arab women have never had an orgasm in the last few hundred years! Every mother has produced kids as an act of sex and not love: @TarekFatah,” the tweet by MP read.
The 5-year-old deeply controversial and misogynistic tweet became the outrage point on the microblogging site. It was later deleted by the BJP MP after online furore.
Mejbel Al Sharika, a Kuwaiti lawyer and Director of International Human Rights, shared the screenshot of the tweet and wrote:
Dear @Twitter , this Indian politicians @Tejasvi_Surya has racially slurred Arab women, I wonder how is his account still active? Is it not against Twitter's official policy? Please act as Arab sentiment has been badly wounded. pic.twitter.com/JAM3hnDEjN
— المحامي⚖مجبل الشريكة (@MJALSHRIKA) April 19, 2020
Similar sentiments were shared by Abdur Rahman Nassar, an intellectual from Kuwait, who tagged PM Narendra Modi while criticising the tweet.
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“The Indian Member of Parliament appeals to Arab women, and we demand that the Arabs drop his membership immediately ..
We hope to request the cancellation of his membership.”
The screenshot of the tweet was widely circulated on Twitter and cries of sacking the BJP MP were at large.
Notably, the (deleted) tweet by the politician was a quote by Pakistani-Canadian journalist and author Tarek Fatah in an interview with Swarajya titled: Tarek Fatah: Breaking Down Jihadi Terror.
Responding to Subramanya’s tweet, journalist Mohammed Zubair pointed out that Surya, while quoting Fatah, had “agreed” with him.
Tejasvi had written about “dreading” the day Women’s Reservation Bill becomes a reality in a 2014 tweet. The women’s reservation has been stalled over the years with members across party lines blocking it.
“With the exception of Women’s Reservation in Parliament, Modi govt agenda is inspiring. Dread d day when women’s reservations becomes a reality (sic),” Surya tweeted in June 2014, days after Narendra Modi was sworn-in as the prime minister.
Again, he was forced to delete the tweet, after netizens called it out, post his nomination to fight the Bengaluru South seat in March 2019.
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