Washington: Expressing outrage at the Time magazine's cover story on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a leading group of Indian American Muslims on Sunday called for an international campaign against the prestigious weekly through email, letters and social media networks - Twitter and Facebook.
"This is an unethical article. We don't expect such a glorification of someone who was involved in massacre of Muslims in Gujarat 10 years ago," Shaik Saad, spokesman of Muslim Peace Coalition said.
The New York-based organisation of Indian American Muslims sent a mass email to its members and supports calling for an international campaign against the Time magazine.
Saad said the group is seeking a meeting with the editorial board of the Time magazine to "sensitise" them with the sentiments of the Muslim community in the US and India which has been deeply hurt by the "glorification" of its recent article on Modi, the cover story of its latest issue of the Asia edition.
Earlier in a mass "action alert" email, Shaik Ubaid, the New York State Co-Chair of Muslim Peace Coalition USA and a founding member of the Coalition Against Genocide that was instrumental in getting Modi's US visa revoked, denounced the Time magazine's glorification of Modi as "bad journalism and an obscenely insensitive act", as it was perpetrated during the 10th anniversary commemoration of Gujarat pogrom.
The "action alert" also called for a similar campaign against the Washington-based think-tank Brookings Institute, which a day before too wrote an unusual long piece on Modi with the headline "India's Most Admired and Most Feared Politician: Narendra Modi".
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