NEW DELHI: Bangladesh pacer Tanzim Hasan Sakib on Tuesday apologised for his previous social media posts that criticized working girls. The 20-year-old nevertheless rejected the label of being a misogynist, declaring that his personal mom is a girl, the nation’s cricket board stated.
Tanzim gained consideration just lately for his spectacular efficiency within the Asia Cup match towards India, the place he took the wicket of India captain Rohit Sharma with solely his fourth worldwide supply and contributed to Bangladesh’s victory.
However, his newfound fame was overshadowed by the revelation of his offensive social media posts, drawing criticism from girls’s rights advocates and feminists.
“He said he was sorry,” Bangladesh Cricket Board cricket operations chief Jalal Yunus instructed reporters in Dhaka.
He added that Tanzim had been warned to not make comparable social media posts sooner or later but additionally stated the bowler had insisted he was “not misogynistic”.
“He said he is not against women, as his mother is a woman,” Jalal stated.
Tanzim’s posts, courting again to final 12 months, criticised girls who joined the labour power and those that combined with “male friends in a university”.
“If the wife works, her elegance is damaged,” Tanzim wrote in a single Facebook put up.
“If the wife works, the family is ruined. If the wife works, the veil is ruined. If the wife works, society is ruined.”
Women type the overwhelming majority of the workforce of the garment factories which have pushed a lot of Bangladesh’s financial development in recent times.
But conservative patriarchal attitudes stay widespread within the majority Muslim nation.
The feedback provoked a backlash, with Paris-based feminist author Jannatun Nayeem Prity declaring that the Bangladesh staff jerseys had been made in factories principally staffed by girls.
“I feel sorry for you that you don’t consider your mother a normal human being,” she added.
Tanzim has performed 12 first-class matches in his brief senior profession, after serving to Bangladesh win the Under-19 World Cup in 2020.
(With inputs from AFP)
Tanzim gained consideration just lately for his spectacular efficiency within the Asia Cup match towards India, the place he took the wicket of India captain Rohit Sharma with solely his fourth worldwide supply and contributed to Bangladesh’s victory.
However, his newfound fame was overshadowed by the revelation of his offensive social media posts, drawing criticism from girls’s rights advocates and feminists.
“He said he was sorry,” Bangladesh Cricket Board cricket operations chief Jalal Yunus instructed reporters in Dhaka.
He added that Tanzim had been warned to not make comparable social media posts sooner or later but additionally stated the bowler had insisted he was “not misogynistic”.
“He said he is not against women, as his mother is a woman,” Jalal stated.
Tanzim’s posts, courting again to final 12 months, criticised girls who joined the labour power and those that combined with “male friends in a university”.
“If the wife works, her elegance is damaged,” Tanzim wrote in a single Facebook put up.
“If the wife works, the family is ruined. If the wife works, the veil is ruined. If the wife works, society is ruined.”
Women type the overwhelming majority of the workforce of the garment factories which have pushed a lot of Bangladesh’s financial development in recent times.
But conservative patriarchal attitudes stay widespread within the majority Muslim nation.
The feedback provoked a backlash, with Paris-based feminist author Jannatun Nayeem Prity declaring that the Bangladesh staff jerseys had been made in factories principally staffed by girls.
“I feel sorry for you that you don’t consider your mother a normal human being,” she added.
Tanzim has performed 12 first-class matches in his brief senior profession, after serving to Bangladesh win the Under-19 World Cup in 2020.
(With inputs from AFP)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com