Burqa-clad woman slams Ganpati idols on floor in Bahrain supermarket, video goes viral
The viral video shows a burqa-clad woman in a supermarket in Bahrain slamming Ganpati idols, kept on the display ahead of the upcoming Ganesh Chaturthi festival, on the floor and shattering them into pieces.
video of a burqa-clad woman furiously throwing Ganpati idols on the floor of a supermarket in Bahrain has gone viral on social media.
In the video, two burqa-clad women can be seen standing near an aisle where idols of Hindu God Ganpati are kept on the display ahead of the upcoming Ganesh Chaturthi festival. One of the women picks up the idols and starts throwing them on the floor one by one, following which the idols shatter into pieces as the other woman records the incident on her mobile phone. The woman can be heard yelling at an attendant at the shop in Arabic.
The woman raised objection over the Ganpati idols being sold in a Muslim country, saying “this is Mohamed ben Issa’s country, do you think he approved of this?”
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The incident reportedly took place at a supermarket in the Juffair neighbourhood of Bahrain’s capital Manama.
The video is being widely shared by social media users in India, with netizens lambasting the citizens of the Middle Eastern country over the incident.
However, the Bahrain Police has taken prompt legal action against the woman who broke the Ganpati idols into pieces. According to reports in local media, the 54-year-old woman has been charged with disrespecting religious sentiments and rituals of a community.
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The Bahrain Ministry of Interior took to Twitter and confirmed that police has taken legal steps against the woman for damaging a shop in Juffair and “defaming a sect and its rituals”, in order to refer her to the Public Prosecution.
The Bahrain Interior Ministry also issued a statement regarding the incident and said, “Concerning a circulated video on social media, the Director-General of Capital Governorate Police announced on Sunday that a woman, 54, was summoned for intentionally damaging a shop in Juffair and breaking religious idols. Legal proceedings are being taken to refer the case to the Public Prosecution”.
Indians are the biggest expatriate group in Bahrain. Today, Indians comprise at an estimated 4,00,000 people of Bahrain’s total population of 1.3 million. Moreover, a 2010 census found that Hindus comprise 9.8 per cent of the population in Bahrain. The heavy presence of expatriates has led Indian culture being prominently displayed in the country and the Juffair neighbourhood is where many of these Indian expats reside
