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From the Subcontinent to Darien, Local Author Becomes TV Scriptwriter, Later Faces Social Media Mob
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Years after she left her job as a scriptwriter for the prime-time television series “Quantico,” Darien resident Sharbari Ahmed recently found herself a target on social media. It was made up of Twitter and Facebook users who were outraged that the show had a recent episode in which Hindu nationalist characters plotted a terrorist act that would be blamed on Muslims.
Ahmed, a Muslim who came to the United States from Bangladesh when she was an infant, hadn’t even been working with the TV program for the past two seasons. Yet she found herself being attacked online, with more and more Twitter and Facebook users piling on with retweets, “likes” and comment after comment accusing her of attacking Hindus. While many Muslims peacefully live in India, as do Hindus in Bangladesh and even Pakistan, there’s a lot of tension on the Subcontinent between many members of either religion, against the other. On Twitter, Sharbari had criticized Hindu nationalists and violence attributed to them in India.