Ladies’s soccer match cancelled in Bangladesh after spiritual protests – INA NEWS

A girls’s soccer match in Bangladesh has been cancelled after protests by college students from a standard spiritual college broken the venue, the second such incident in as many days.

The northwestern metropolis of Joypurhat was as a consequence of host a pleasant soccer match on Wednesday between its district girls’s group and one other from close by Rangpur, however the venue and its services have been vandalised, native organisers stated.

“The Islamists in our space gathered in a discipline and marched towards the venue. There have been a whole lot of them,” match organiser Samiul Hasan Emon advised the AFP information company.

“The state of affairs worsened, and we needed to cancel right this moment’s occasion.”

Abu Bakkar Siddique, the headmaster of a neighborhood spiritual college, stated he had joined the demonstration along with his college students and lecturers and pupils from a number of different spiritual faculties.

“Women soccer is un-Islamic,” he stated. “It’s our spiritual responsibility to cease something that goes towards our beliefs.”

The incident occurred after one other match was postponed within the close by metropolis Dinajpur on Tuesday following an analogous demonstration by protesters wielding sticks.

“The match was suspended half an hour earlier than it was presupposed to kick off. We needed to shortly transfer the women to a safer place,” instructor Moniruzzaman Zia advised AFP.

Native authorities officer Amit Roy stated 4 folks have been injured when protesters and counterdemonstrators lobbed bricks at one another however all had since been discharged from hospital.

Wednesday’s incident was swiftly condemned by the Bangladesh Soccer Federation (BFF).

“Soccer is for everybody, and ladies have full rights to take part in it,” BFF media supervisor Sadman Sakib stated in a press release.