Kerala: At the State School Festival, performers at the inauguration depict Muslim men as terrorists wearing religious attire.
An inaugural musical event at Kerala State School Art Festival depicting Muslims as terrorists sparked outrage in Kerala, with Muslim bodies calling out Kerala government’s “blatant Islamophobia”.
On the inaugural day of the festival, the artists staged a visual performance depicting a Muslim man wearing a religious white cap as a terrorist caught by army personnel. The festival, in which more than 10,000 students from across the 14 districts of the State were to compete in 239 events on 24 stages, was inaugurated by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in a function which was attended by ministers, the Speaker of the Kerala Assembly, and members of the Legislative Assembly.
The show directed by Malayalam Theatrical Heritage & Arts in association with Matha Perambra showed the Indian army apprehending a terrorist who had shot dead a solider in the initial act. The terrorist was shown as a rifle-wielding man sporting a Keffiyeh (a traditional Arab head gear worn by men).