New Delhi: Social media users are having a field day mocking The Washington Post headline called Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi “austere religious scholar” after the dreaded terrorist was killed in a US raid. “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the austere religious scholar at the helm of Islamic State, dies at 48” read the obituary headline of the post, triggering outrage among some social media users, a flood of memes in the platforms.
The headline was later changed to “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, extremist leader of Islamic State, dies at 48”. “Regarding our al-Baghdadi obituary, the headline should never have read that way and we changed it quickly,” tweeted Kristine Coratti Kelly, Vice President of Communications for The Washington Post. But the headline that called Baghdadi “austere religious scholar” stuck with Twitterati, leading to over 191,000 tweets. “Mogambo, ever-smiling, always happy chemistry enthusiast and ballistics aficionado die at 58,” tweeted one user from India.
Mogambo referred to the villain played by Amrish Puri in the 1987 Shekhar Kapur-directed Bollywood film “Mr. India”. “Ajmal Kasab, student, backpacker and biryani connoisseur, dies at 25,” wrote another Twitter user, referring to the Pakistani terrorist who took part in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. (IANS)
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