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Siti Kasim shares the photograph taken at a kindergarten in Kota Damansara and asks if pre-schoolers are being brainwashed to become militants in the name of jihad.
PETALING JAYA: Are kindergarten-going children being brainwashed to become militants in the name of jihad?
That’s the question lawyer and activist Siti Kasim asked in her latest Facebook posting where she shared a photograph showing kids, purportedly from a kindergarten in Kota Damansara, standing with their teacher while holding toy guns and dressed in military fatigues.
The photo was apparently posted by the teacher in her Instagram account.
Outraged at the implication, Siti asked: “Tell me what you think of these photos. I am extremely disturbed by these.
“The teacher and the kids are holding weapons! Maybe plastic but a kindergarten? In a pre-school? (expletives) is she teaching?”
According to Siti, the teacher is from the Darul Quran Islamiyah College University (KUDQI) based in Terengganu, which she claimed was a branch of Jemaah Islamiyah.
“What kind of Islam do you think they are teaching the kids, you think? I hope the authorities will look into this,” she said.
Netizens also expressed horror at the post, and called on the authorities to check on the kind of curriculum the kindergarten used for its students.
At the time of writing, the post had been shared close to 300 times and “liked” by more than 360 people.
The outspoken lawyer is currently under probe for criminal intimidation and for allegedly obstructing a public servant from carrying out his duties, when she stood up for members of the transgender community during a raid by religious authorities recently.
