Thiruvananthapuram: Journalist VP Rajeena became a target of online abuse after she shared a post on her Facebook page on her personal experience of studying in a Madrasa and how the instructor there abused children.
After this post, the abusers in large numbers questioned her motive and said that it was an attack on religion. There have been open threats on her Facebook page and also in her message box.
She posted about the Madrasa on Sunday. On Tuesday her account was blocked after mass reporting by the abusers, but she managed to recover it. On Wednesday the account was blocked again.
According to The News Minute website, in the Facebook post that became controversial Rajeena reminisced about an 'Ustad' or teacher at a Sunni Madarasa in Kozhikode city who would feel up her male classmates' private parts. She described how young boys in the class would be summoned by the 'Ustad' and asked to unzip their shorts. Rajeena said that even as the boys squirmed, the girls too were left embarrassed and shocked. The 'Ustad' would then tell the boys that he was only checking the size, she wrote. She also talked about how such experiences were spread out across her six years of education at the Madarasa and even the girls in her class were not spared. The journalist also alleged that another 'Ustad', who was above 60 years of age, would move around the class during power cuts and sexually abuse the minor girls.
Ever since Rajeena put up the Facebook post, she was at the receiving end of a barrage of abuses and threats, forcing her to write another post in which she declared that despite everything, she would remain fearless.
"After I put up the Facebook post my account was blocked for some time and it later came back. But from Wednesday morning it was blocked again and has not been reinstated by Facebook," Rajeena told The News Minute.
She is a journalist with Madhyamam newspaper and is based in Kozhikode.
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