Featured image: A screengrab from the video purported to be from a madrasa in Bangladesh
A shocking video purported to be from Bangladesh has surfaced on social media. The video allegedly shows a large group of school-children chanting anti-Hindu slogans.
The video, allegedly from the Hathazari Madrasa in Bangladesh’s Chittagong, shows the children chanting ‘Naara e takbeer, Allahu Akbar’ and calling for ‘direct action’ against the Hindus of Bangladesh and India. The dwindling Hindu minority of Bangladesh has been bearing the brunt of Islamic persecution for several decades.
The video was uploaded on social media platform Twitter by a user who goes by the username ‘Voice of Bangladeshi Hindus’.
The children at the Hathazari Madrasa in Chittagong are being taught slogans against #Hindus in #India and #Bangladesh. What kind of (direct action) they want against the Hindus of India? Is this an example of a religion of peace ? pic.twitter.com/4uO8xDFMxU
— Voice Of Bangladeshi Hindus 🇧🇩 (@VoiceOfHindu71) February 18, 2022
The slogans, which the children can be heard chanting under the guidance of someone who is presumably a teacher, allegedly ask Hindus to ‘beware, beware!’ against the ‘children of the Prophet’ and call for ‘direct action’.
The phrase ‘direct action’ used here refers to the riots of ‘Direct Action Day’ of 16 August, 1946 engineered in the erstwhile Bengal presidency by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and the All India Muslim League. Around 5,000 Hindus had lost their lives in the riots, which were perpetrated to assert the Muslim League’s demand for an independent and separate nation for Indian Muslims.
The video has also surfaced on social media at a time when the state of Karnataka is rocked with the ‘hijab row’.
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