(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The school’s Muslim headmaster and a female Hindu teacher were detained on Friday as thousands protested the play following weekly prayers at Kaliganj, 250km (155 miles) southwest of the capital Dhaka, police chief Farid Uddin said.
The protesters alleged that the play, entitled Huzur Qibla, which was staged by pupils on Tuesday contained derogatory remarks about the prophet.
“The drama contained blasphemous remarks about the Prophet, which angered Muslim villagers,” the local police official told AFP.
He said the teachers had been accused of “hurting religious sentiment” for helping organise the drama at their school.
At least 3,000 demonstrators barricaded a key road and held noisy protests in front of the school and in other towns in the district on Friday.
Some 90% of Bangladesh’s 150mn people are Muslim and Islam is country’s state religion.
The country’s secular government has dealt harshly with any event or publications seen as potentially upsetting religious feelings out of concern they could trigger protests by ultra-conservative Islamist outfits.
Earlier in March, a court in Muslim-majority Bangladesh ordered the government to immediately block pages of websites with content deemed to hurt the religious sentiments of Muslims.
The high court issued the order after two university teachers filed a petition seeking action against the publication of offensive material on a few Facebook pages and another website, which they said was disparaging of the Prophet and Islam.
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