Various schools in Bengaluru today received a threatening mail stating that a “very powerful bomb” has been planted in the school.
Bengaluru City Police said that the search operation is going on in these schools as reported by news agency ANI.
Earlier, al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has used the recent hijab controversy in Karnataka to target democracy in India, saying “we must stop being deceived by the mirage of pagan Hindu democracy”.
In an 8.43-minute video clip released online by the terror outfit, and verified by US site Intelligence Group, Zawahiri confronts a group of students protesting the hijab at her college in early February, of Karnataka college student Muskan Khan. also praised.
In the Arabic video clip with English subtitles provided by the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks the online activity of white supremacist and jihadist organizations, Zawahiri also recites a poem he says has inspired “our Mujahid sister” and her “brave achievement”. “Wrote for.
The al-Qaeda chief said in the video, “May Allah reward him for exposing the reality of Hindu India and the deceit of its pagan democracy,” also ending speculation about his death from natural causes.
The second video of the al-Qaeda chief in the past six months, mostly focused on the hijab controversy.
“…we must put aside the illusion that confuses us…we must stop being deceived by the mirage of India’s pagan Hindu democracy, which, initially, was no more than a tool to oppress Muslims, ” said. One of the world’s most wanted terrorists, Zawahiri.
Addressing the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent, he said that they should realize that there is no such thing as ‘human rights’ or ‘respecting the constitution’ or ‘law’ in the real world.
He said, “…this is exactly the same deception scheme the West has used against us, the true nature of which was exposed by France, Holland and Switzerland when they banned the hijab allowing public nudity.” Had given.”
“The enemies of Islam are the same … Those who defame the hijab and attack Islamic Sharia … This is a war on Islam, its fundamentals, its laws, morals and etiquette.”
Calling for the unity of Muslims from China to the Islamic Maghreb and from the Caucasus to Somalia, Zawahiri said, “We must rely only on Allah and actively cooperate with each other.”
“We must realize that the governments imposed on us especially in Pakistan and Bangladesh do not defend us, but protect the very enemies they have empowered to fight against us,” he said.
The hijab controversy began in January at a government-run PU college in Udupi, where six students attended classes wearing headscarves in violation of the prescribed dress code. Later it spread to some other colleges in nearby Kundapur and Bindur.
The Karnataka High Court later dismissed all writ petitions by Muslim girl students seeking permission to wear hijab in colleges and held that hijab is not a part of the essential religious practices of Islam.
*With inputs from agencies
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