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Many have come forward on Twitter with personal accounts of being abused, shamed, violated and harassed, both in and out of school, as children. Illustration: studio.yante.ismail/Instagram
Nora, 23, is uncomfortable in religious settings because she associates it with a betrayal of trust. When she was eight, she was sexually-abused by a teacher.
“We had religious classes for children in the neighbourhood. It was operated by this ustaz and ustazah, whom I saw as a sweet and respected married couple, ” she recounts.
One day, when everyone was in the classroom listening to the ustazah, Nora was called to a room at the back by the ustaz to read the Quran.