New Delhi: Protest in Karnataka for Students Rejected the right to wear a headscarf marked Thursday by Manchester United Footballer Paul Pogba, who shared Instagram’s story – “Hindutva Mobs continues to harass Muslim girls wearing headscarves to college in India”.
Pogba, a National Frenchman whose mother was Muslim and who began practicing Islam in 2019, sharing a roll of 58 seconds which was originally posted by London-based Instagram _Islamismydeen_ handle.
The clip starts with a massive crowd of boys and men wearing (or waving) a turmeric scarf and surrounds a small group of young girls wearing a headscarf. Mob, whose number is a few dozen individuals at least, can be heard screaming and singing when the dust rises from a fight.
Some other men seem to hold hands to form a protective barrier around the girls, and it seems like there are only two visible police personnel.
The clip then shows a young woman, maybe a school teacher, carefully opened the door of the classroom after that dozens of boys wrapped in turmeric scarves and encourage the storm in it.
The third part shows more boys – at this time there seems to be hundreds – waving turmeric flags and dancing and cheering when they move down the road.
It’s not clear when and where each clip is shot.
Pogba is not the first international figure that attracts attention to the hijab protest; On Wednesday, Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai said “refusing to let the girls go to school in hijab is terrible.”
In the country the sound storm had been appointed in support (and opposing) both parties, with the leader of the Congress of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra among those who spoke.
On Tuesday the situation increased at a college in the Mandya District after male students killed a Muslim girl, shouted ‘Jai Shri Ram’. He shouted “Allah Hu Akbar” on the aggressor.
The day before, two men were arrested in Kundapur for carrying weapons near student protests.
Protest against requests to wear hijabs – which officials are said to be imposed in class but not during the lesson – have been paired by at least one group of right-wing fresches – The Hindu Jagrana Vedia.
Controversy over Muslim students was banned from wearing a hijab starting last month after six girls from Udupi District Karnataka voiced their concerns. Since then he has a snowball into a significant problem, with the High Court of the State hearing the petition and the Supreme Court also approached.