On January 1, when the world welcomed the beginning of a new year, many Muslim women in India woke up to the horror of seeing their names and photos listed for ‘auction’ on a website called ‘Bulli Bai’.
The website hosted on GitHub displayed more than 100 Muslim women ‘for sale as maids’. The women listed, include journalists, writers and activists, vocal on social media and elsewhere against the atrocities on Muslims in the country.
But this is not the first time, their names and pictures were used to degrade them. Last year, an identical website called Sulli Deals sparked a row, for listing Muslim women for ‘sale’.
In another instance, a YouTube channel named “Liberal Doge”, shared pictures of Pakistani women in a sexualised video. However, despite the outrage and multiple complaints, no action has been taken so far by the authorities
This shameful incident comes just weeks after, genocidal calls were given against Muslims by prominent Hindu priests.
“Bulli Bai takes hate crimes in India to another dangerous level where Muslim women are being virtually violated and made a free-for-all for a bigoted mob. These auctions of women from the minority communities display the moral degradation of India and its constitutional values, said Washington Post columnist, Rana Ayyub.
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