Bangladesh teachers dissent self-abasement for Islam insult
1000 of teachers took to the streets crossways Bangla Desh Thursday to resist against a lawmaker's penalty of a schoolmaster falsely accused of scurrilous Islam, afterward the incidental went viral on mixer media.
Teachers from universities, schools and seminaries held rallies in keep going of the schoolmaster subsequently opposite MP Ilich Sanchez Osman ordered him to low-set spell keeping his ears -- a humiliating penalty in the Muslim-bulk commonwealth.
Shyamol Kanti Bhakta was punished concluding calendar week in Bandar town, external Dhaka, in movement of hundreds of populate afterward he was falsely accused of making derogative remarks against Islam.
Dhaka university teachers protested in their thousands on May 19, 2016 against the public chagrin of a schoolhouse master by a phallus of fantan �- (AFP)
Criticism of Muslimism is ofttimes instigative in Bangladesh, which is reeling from a curl of recent killings of layperson and bountiful activists and religious minorities.
The videoed incident was uploaded onto sociable media, sparking an cry and demands for Department of Justice for the master. The label #SorrySir was trending on Twitter and many posted photos of themselves knee bend in a register of subscribe.
"The MP has insulted the entire nation by humiliating its builder -- the teacher," said Shahab Enam Khan, a prof at Jahangirnagar University, during a tantalize in Dacca.
"It seems as if the MP has forgotten the difference between a lawmaker and a law enforcer," Khan told Alpha fetoprotein.
Dhaka University pro-vice prime minister Nasreen Ahmed aforementioned thousands of teachers were pickings piece in the protests held in cities and towns "to demand justice for the deplorable incident".
Bangladesh breeding rector Nurul Muslimism Nahid on Thursday reinstated the headmaster and sacked the school's government board, which had suspended him over the incident.
"Injustice has been done to the teacher," the minister said, describing the incidental as "shameful".
However, the lawmaker, from the modest enemy Jatiya Party, refused to apologise, locution many had supported his actions.
"Why shall I apologise? Five thousand men gathered and chanted slogans against him (Bhakta). I actually helped him to escape the angry public," Osman told reporters.
Last month, deuce Hindu schooltime teachers were imprisoned for allegedly fashioning "abusive" remarks against Islam in the southwesterly townspeople of Chitalmari.
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