College vandalised after protest against chairman accused of insulting Islam
The vandalism came amid growing calls to punish those who mock or insult Islam on social media.
22 Jan 2019, 9:00 AM
The glass door of Mandhu College was smashed around 2am on Tuesday, hours after a protest was staged outside the building calling for the arrest of the college’s chairman Ibrahim Ismail ‘Ibra’ for allegedly insulting or mocking Islam.
The vandalism is under investigation, police said.
On Monday night, a group of about 30 young men, identified as activists of jailed former vice president Ahmed Adeeb’s new party, gathered in front of the college premises on the capital’s main thoroughfare, holding up placards condemning Ibra as well as Home Minister Imran Abdulla and chanting for the former lawmaker’s arrest.
‘Arrest laadheenee [irreligious or secular] Ibra!’ ‘Scholars come out in defence of religion!’ and ‘To insult is not freedom,’ read some of the placards.
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