Bella Hadid says Muslim suffering deserves same backlash as Ukraine invasion

California (QNN)- American supermodel from Dutch-Palestinian descent Bella Hadid raised a question on the visible discrimination in condemning the oppression in different parts of the world, demanding same level of backlash against Muslim suffering as the outrage against Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Taking to Instagram, the supermodel spoke up about the ongoing exploitation of Muslims around the globe as people chose to stay mum about the injustice. Hadid reminded people that all oppression deserves the same level of backlash.

“Question yourself, question how quietly you moved around other injustices, the footprint we leave here will be the clearest one we’ve left in a long time,” Hadid’s post read.

“If this is your first time realising a war in some years, you’re not of the world. War is forever, and the position we take during it is forever too,” she pointed out the biased reaction towards the Muslim suffering in Palestine and China.

“The moment the American president is defending a liberation movement, there’s no risk in joining that defence. There’s little glory in joining a warmonger point at another warmonger,” the 25-year-old model asked people to show support to Muslims.

She captioned the post, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“The language we use to define oppression cannot favour one victim over another,” Hadid noted.

“How many Muslim nations aflame? Invasions by the west, merciless drone strikes, executions, internment camps in China? How much of Palestine, how little of Palestine left?”

Hadid recently spoke up against the discrimination against hijab wearing Muslims amidst the hijab bans in countries like India and France, urging governments to stop dictating women’s choices and what they can wear.

Hadid said in 2017 that she identifies as a “proud Muslim” and made sure to stand up for her “Muslim sisters.”

She has been very vocal about Islamophobia and the rights of Palestinians as well. She and her sister Gigi posted about Palestinian oppression and condemned silence on attacks in Palestine.

Since the tragedy of war in Ukraine, more than half a million people in the country have fled for safe sanctuary, as countries welcome refugees into safety, and rightly so.

However, the reporting of this tragedy has seen double standards and Eurocentric bias that hold one group of human lives more valuable than others, who are suffering conflicts in countries such as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.

“This isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades,” Charlie D’Agata, a CBS correspondent in Kyiv stated live on air. D’Agata did not stop there. He went on to say that, “You know, this is a relatively civilised, relatively European — I have to choose those words carefully, too — city where you wouldn’t expect that or hope that it’s going to happen.”

The bias and racist elements when describing refugees did not stop at his comments. In fact, reporters from other media outlets said things as equally offensive.

An Al Jazeera anchor airing his views on it said, “These are not obviously refugees trying to get away from areas in the Middle East” and even an ITV News reporter stating that, “Now the unthinkable has happened to them, and this is not a developing, Third World nation, this is Europe”.

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