: The Karnataka campaign isn’t just about the hijab – it’s mainly about showing Muslims their place #IndiaNEWS The defining image of this new year is girl students in Kundapur in Karnataka, saffron

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The Karnataka campaign isn’t just about the hijab – it’s mainly about showing Muslims their place #IndiaNEWS
The defining image of this new year is girl students in Kundapur in Karnataka, saffron scarves around their necks, processing down a street shouting “Jai Shree Ram�. They were marching in support of an Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-Bharatiya Janata Party campaign to impose rules of dress on their Muslim fellow students. These young women are the latest addition to the RSS-BJP’s growing army of radicalised youth who act as vigilantes deploying methods ranging from intimidation to physical violence against Muslims.Over the last few weeks, one pre-university college (high school) after another in Karnataka has refused entry to their hijab wearing girl students. Girls, they say, cannot attend college except without a hijab. In the words of the BJP Member of Parliament for Mysore-Kodagu, Pratap Simha: “You can wear hijab, burqa…and can go to a madrassa.�There is no ambiguity there. What the ruling party MP is saying is this: if you can be identified as Muslim, you will be excluded from public spaces. If you display your Muslim religious identity, you will not be tolerated. Muslims exist on sufferance. If they fail to meet conditions acceptable to the RSS-BJP regime, they will be forced into ghettos.Large numbers of Hindu students in these colleges, mostly boys, but...Read more

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