Summary Netizens strongly condemned the publisher and have launched an online petition to withdraw the book.
NEW DELHI (Dunya News) - A public outrage was witnessed on social media after an image published in Class VI science textbook taught in Indian schools showed mosque as a source of noise pollution.
The picture shows several symbols depicted noise pollution including a train, car, plane and a mosque instead of speakers. Next to them is a man shutting his ears to the blare.
Netizens strongly condemned the publisher and have launched an online petition to withdraw the book.
The writer should be true to himself. If mosque s are a source of noise pollution, so are temples and gurudwaras!
— Donna Radhakrishnan (@donna_rk_) July 2, 2017
6th Std ICSE textbook shows causes of Noise Pollution with d MOSQUE. WT does it mean? AZAAN causes NOISE POLLUTION? #NarendraModi #PMO #HRD pic.twitter.com/eQP19n7Ik6
— Zulqarnain Bhaisaheb (@zulqarnainrhs) July 2, 2017
ICSE Class VI.
— Fahad (@rjfahad) June 30, 2017
Noise pollution
Pic : Mosque
Just mosques have loudspeakers, or it s just a subtle way to sow hatred in young minds? pic.twitter.com/OobFRSOvse
If mosque is a source of noise pollution then which kind of pollution will b the cow-urine nd big bangs in mundirs... Moodi jawab do
— Arif Shah (@ArifSha56792255) July 3, 2017
Subsequently; the outrage forced the publisher to issue an apology. "This is to inform all concerned that we will be changing the picture in subsequent editions of the book," publisher Hemant Gupta said on social media sites.
Gupta said the diagram on page 202 of its publication, Integrated Science, consisted of "a structure resembling a portion of a fort and other noise producing objects in a noisy city".
"We do apologise if it has hurt the sentiments of anyone," he said.
Earlier, Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam aroused a fury in April this month when he posted a series of statements against Azaan terming it ‘forced religiousness’. However; he received flak over his comments as people called him ‘disrespectful’ towards the religion.
