Memunda Higher Secondary School in Vadakara near Kozhikode is in controversy again. A drama titled ‘Boundary’ performed by children from the school, won first place in the Kozhikode District School Arts Festival. Organizers and those behind the play are now facing widespread criticism from different sections of society for portraying their love for Pakistan using underage children.
It is based on objections faced by one Fatima Sultana, who congratulated the Pakistan team Facebook after they won an India-Pakistan cricket match. Several anti-nationals in Malappuram and Kozhikode celebrate whenever Bharat loses cricket matches, especially against Pakistan. Incidentally, except on a few rare occasions, such traitors have had to mourn more often than not.
The dialogues go like this. “Do we not clap when Brazil wins the game? Do we not shout when Argentina wins? Do we not clap when New Zealand and England win? What is the problem if we clap when Pakistan wins?” says a young girl.
Her mother answers. “My dear, our country is not mature enough to think like this.” The daughter asks, “Umma (Muslims call their mother Umma), who put up these boundaries? If there were none, we could have loved people worldwide equally.”
Such dialogues portray the writer and organizer’s ideas, politics, and religious thoughts with an ulterior motive. The school authorities used young children as propaganda tools. Communist media houses quickly pounced on the ‘opportunity’ and carried the news far and wide.
It became apparent that the Boundary drama was enacted without any supervision. What is even more suspicious is that it won the first prize. The commentary of a cricket match and a football match is not the same. But without even paying attention to that, it is clear that the play Boundary is written to express a particular political and religious theme. An example is when the cricket umpire runs around like a football referee in the play.
Memunda School was in the news for the wrong reasons in 2018. Back then, they performed a controversial play called ‘Kitab.’ The play’s theme was why Muslim women are not allowed to pray in the mosque. Dialogues in the drama asked why women do not get hoors in heaven while men do. (Radical Islamists believe that paradise awaits with 72 hoors and rivers of wine for jihadis)
When Kitab was performed, Muslim organizations protested against the school. After receiving threats, Memunda School withdrew the play. Now, the same ones who opposed back then are asking what the issue is with loving Pakistan.
When adults script a drama for children, it should be appropriate for young minds. But the drama Boundary uses children to spread highly radicalized politics and religion. Objectionable dialogues from the drama added with a specific purpose are circulating on social media. Rafique Mangalasseri is the author of the play Boundary. Several Hindus In Name Only (HINOs) congratulated him on his ‘achievement.’
Most children who participated in the drama looked like they came from Hindu families. Anti-nationalism is something that the green communists try and inculcate very early into the minds of school-going minors. They have also been successful in destroying many generations with their poisonous agenda. They are also the same ones who justify Taliban atrocities. Grooming jihad is rampant in the region.
Nationalists have pointed out that neither Brazil nor Argentina attacks and kills our military officers. Some suggested that Mangalasery should have checked with the families of hundreds of martyrs (including Muslims) who have laid their lives protecting our nation from enemies like Pakistan and Maoists. There are demands that the teachers who encouraged such treason and taught the children should be arrested. But this is ‘secular’ Kerala. So it is no surprise that no action has been initiated against the perpetrators.
