This was meant to humiliate and shame the principal, which in a shame/honor culture is a serious thing to do.
“Outrage as Hindu college principal is forced to wear garland of shoes in Bangladesh,” Bdnews24.com, June 26, 2022:
A video of a Hindu college principal being forced to wear a garland of shoes for what Muslim locals and students said was his attempt to protect a pupil of his faith from a mob has sparked outrage on social media in Bangladesh.
Many have questioned how a teacher can be assaulted in the presence of police after the incident occurred at Mirzapur United College in Narail’s Sadar Upazila on Jun 17.
Protesters, who say the teacher was humiliated in such a way just because he belongs to the religious minority group, have also called a rally at Shahbagh in Dhaka on Monday.
“The teacher had no role in the incident. Police took him out without protecting him. What do those who run the administration want?” said Robin Ahsan, one of the organisers of the rally.
“This happened in front of hundreds of police personnel. This is a signal for Bangladesh. Has the administration fallen into the hands of fundamentalists?” he asked.
The incident took place in the wake of a Facebook post by a Hindu student who shared a photo of Indian BJP leader Nupur Sharma, who has been criticised for her remarks on Prophet Muhammad.
According to locals, some Muslim students asked the Hindu student to delete the post after he went to the college.
Tension mounted when rumours spread that acting Principal Swapan Kumar Biswas took the Hindu student’s side. Angry Muslim locals and students set the motorcycles of the principal and two teachers on fire. The mob also clashed with police.
A video of the incident showed the locals and students putting a garland of shoes around Swapan’s neck, accusing him of belittling Islam.
“What’s the allegation? (It’s that) He has insulted religion. How? A group of angry students went to him and informed him that a Hindu student had insulted religion with a post supporting India’s Nupur Sharma. Swapan Kumar Biswas immediately called police. He made the phone call – this was seen as his crime; making this call was [seen] as an insult to religion,” theatre artist Zulfikar Chanchal wrote on Facebook….
The principal is keeping a distance from everyone since the incident. He is not staying at home in fear.
Asked why Swapan was detained, Narail Sadar Police Station chief Mohammad Shawkat Kabir told bdnews24.com, “The college principal didn’t insult any religion. He wasn’t detained. We saved him that day. No question of filing a case against him arises as he didn’t commit any crime.”…
mortimer says
It is HONORABLE for Muslims to TORTURE non-Muslims.
Islam is an HONOR/SHAME CULTURE and thus put downs to non-Muslims is required to ‘elevate’ the SUPREME IMAGE of Islam.
Islam has NOTHING to do with ETHICS, but EVERYTHING to do with HONOR and SHAME.
– from Sufi scholar Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624): “The honour of Islam lies in INSULTING kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to HUMILIATE them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain TERRIFIED and TREMBLING. It is intended to hold them under CONTEMPT and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”
mortimer says
The garland of shoes around Swapan’s neck represent the fact that Muslims have a right to STEP ON NON-MUSLIM KAFIRS after placing them in socially INFERIOR position to Muslims.
A family member who is a teacher noticed that Muslim schoolboys gave NO RESPECT to teachers who were not Muslims … they treated these teachers with contempt to point of ill-disguised threatening.
Infidel says
Memo to Hindus everywhere: “BOYCOTT BANGLADESH!” 🚫🇧🇩 (I wish the former emoji could be overlaid over the latter)
Melc says
Not only Hindus. I am an atheist. I never encountered any hostility while I lived in India for two years. Indeed there is a school of Hindu thought that includes free thinkers and atheists in its philosophy.
Infidel says
That’s true, but by Hindus, I meant everyone born into it, as well as those who’ve embraced it. Hindus itself is a wide variety of beliefs under one umbrella – Vaishnav, Shaivya, Shakta, Smarta and a whole bunch of others
Difference b/w those atheists and the ones here is that those atheists simply disbelieve in any of the deities, but are happy to respect believers. Much rarer among atheists in the West, who generally tend to be more communist than Ayn Randesque
Devasur says
That’s how they protect their non-muslim minorities while crying for more freebies and rights in non Muslims countries. These fascists are supported and promoted as symbols of diversity and peace by libertards.
Is this the ex of diversity and peace libertards?
These would be discarded by MSM pimps because it doesn’t suit the narrative of Muslims being forever victims.
gravenimage says
Bangladesh: Muslims force Hindu principal to wear garland of shoes for protecting Hindu student from Muslim mob
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*Sickening*. Kudos to this brave man for protecting his student.
And as I’m sure many here know, the “garland of shoes” thing is deemed far more humiliating in Dar-al-Islam than it would be in the civilized world.