?In November this year, a 17-year-old US girl named Feroza Aziz,took the world of TikTok by storm with an unconventional video.?
What seemed like a regular makeup tutorial,quickly escalated into a video explaining the atrocities meted out to theUighur Muslims in China.
The video quickly caught fire on social media and peoplestarted sharing it across different social media platforms. Feroza Aziz, ahuman rights activist, went on to post a bunch of videos talking about pressingpolitical issues and explaining things in a simplistic way.
Her most recent video is on the controversial CitizenshipAct passed by the Indian government.??
In the video titled, 'Love this skincare routine I found', Aziz quickly shifts focus from skin issues to the chaos that's unfolding in India with the passing of the Citizenship act.?
Aziz explains, "I also want to speak about the Citizenship bill that's passed in India which excludes Muslims to be granted Citizenship in India and it also requires Muslims to show document proof that they are in fact, Indian citizens."
She goes on to?criticise the government for excluding such a vast population based solely on religion and tags the bill as?"wrong, immoral and a violation of human rights."??
On her Instagram page, Feroza Aziz wrote, "Religion does not make you any less or any more of an Indian. This bill spreads hate and does not care about its own people. People are protesting as we speak, but they are being fought for doing so. Police brutality is at a high, and it’s only getting worse. Please spread awareness, do not keep silent on this issue."
According to a Guardian report, TikTok misunderstood her videos and immediately suspended her account after she posted content related to Xinjiang.
Here is a trick to getting longer lashes!?#tiktok?#muslim?#muslimmemes?#islam?pic.twitter.com/r0JR0HrXbm
— feroza.x (@x_feroza)?November 25, 2019
After she had made comical videos making fun of derogatory comments that she has received, including one related to Osama bin Laden, the TikTok admin immediately took her off the app.?
After being slammed for taking her videos down the? Beijing-based ByteDance Inc app was forced to put an online apology saying it was a “human moderation error”? and that Aziz’s video didn't violate its standards, shouldn’t have been removed, and was only offline for 50 minutes total.?