Indian video editor calls Pakistani ex-Muslim celeb ‘scumbag beggar’. But why?

The internet has its ways of surprising us. This time, it happened with ex-Muslim and Australia-based YouTuber, Harris Sultan, claiming that he had been scammed by an Indian video editor. Sultan is a famous YouTuber with 2.19 lakh subscribers, and he criticises Islam and posts content around it.

Haris Sultan claimed that he hired a “cheap video editor from India” who scammed him for money and when he refused to give it, he changed his YouTube channel to ‘Scumbag Beggar’. His channel’s handle is @HarrisSultanAtheist.

The word beggar was also misspelt as ‘begger’.

In a post on X, he tagged YouTube support and discussed how he was facing an issue.

“@YouTubeCreators, I made the mistake of hiring a cheap video editor from India who tried to scam me for money. When I refused, he changed my channel’s name to ‘Scumbag Beggar.’ Now @YouTube is telling me I have to wait 14 days before I can change it back. Really @YouTube?” he wrote.

Sultan also wrote subsequent posts on the issue. He also shared the screenshot of the payment he had made to the video editor.

After Sultan posted about his issue, YouTube was quick to respond.

“@TheHarrisSultan totally understand your frustration, we’ve sent you a DM with the next steps.”

Many in the comments section took this to be an attack on India and not just the video editor.

“You are a world-class idiot if you think I’m naming the whole country.” he responded.

BUT WHY WAS THE SLUR ‘BEGGAR’ USED FOR HARRIS SULTAN?

It is even more interesting that Sultan was called a beggar. This might have been a dig at his Pakistani origin.

This happened because a recent report revealed how 90% of all beggars detained in West Asian nations are from Pakistan and these beggars are locked up in jails in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Secretary of Overseas Pakistanis, Zeeshan Khanzada, said.

“Ambassadors of Iraq and Saudi Arabia have told us that Pakistani beggars travel abroad under the guise of ziarat (pilgrimage) on Umrah visas and later engage in begging on the streets,” Pakistan’s Geo News Urdu quoted Khanzada as saying.

HARRIS SULTAN FLED PAKISTAN AFTER THREATS TO LIFE

As for Haris Sultan, earlier this year, he revealed he had received death threats and shared the screenshots of the Instagram chats, tagging the police asking it to take action.

Sultan had moved to Australia at the age of 19 from Lahore. He wrote a book ‘The Curse of God – Why I Left Islam’, which came out in 2018.

He had also responded to reports of rising Islamophobia in Pakistan.

“Stop forcing your children to pray, and fast, and keep them from speaking against your archaic, religious customs,” he wrote in a Twitter post.

He also said the rise in apostates in Pakistan was due to “brutality and suppression of dissent” in Pakistan.

He said: “400,000 Pakistanis from all walks of life, who regularly engage in bashing Islamâ€æwill turn into 4 million very soon.”

“If you don’t want this to blow out of proportion then stop killing us,” he wrote.

He then mentioned data from a 2022 report which discussed Pakistan as the 7th most Islamophobic country in the world.