Nice, politically correct reporting – UPDATED

From Sify: Clashes after Twenty20 final, 5 injured

Excerpts (emphasis mine)

” …Members of two communities clashed in Gadarpur late Monday soon after India’s victory over Pakistan in the Twenty20 World Cup final in Johannesburg, after which police fired in the air to disperse the warring groups.

…the clash…took place after some people took out a procession to celebrate the victory of Indian cricket team, which was objected to by members of the other community…

…The situation in nearby towns like Kitchha was also stated to be tense but under control…”

I thought our press had matured enough…but I may be wrong. 

What next? Members of a community are agitated that some atheists are making derogatory remarks about their faith?

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Avoiding the M-word from which comes this short excerpt:

“…The obfuscation is sometimes almost comical. The New York Times, reporting the Glasgow attack on Page 1, carefully avoided using the M-word to identify Britain’s Muslim terrorists. Instead it attributed the 7/7 bombings to Britain’s “disenfranchised South Asian population” and reported that the terrorists in Glasgow “were South Asian.” (As Joel Mowbray pointed out for Powerline, Indian Hindus are Britain’s largest South Asian demographic.)…”

and Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims 

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UPDATE: There is more (courtesy of Sandeep’s blog).

Apparently, “A group of youths who were celebrating the Indian team’s victory in the Twenty 20 cricket final between India and Pakistan were attacked by a group of alleged NDF activists at Paruthukuzhi near Poonthura here on Monday night.”

For those who do not know NDF, it is a right wing, militant Islamist organisation in Kerala, India established in 1993. (more here)