Hijab-wearing Muslim woman confronts Hindu mob outside a college in India, drawing praise, even as fury over hijab ban in southern Karnataka state spreads
The stand-off in Karnataka state has galvanised fears among the minority community about what they say is increasing persecution under the Hindu nationalist government of PM Modi.
Students at a government-run high school were told not to wear hijabs last month, an edict that soon spread to other educational institutions in the state. "We had... requested them not to wear hijab," he said. "But today they are wearing hijab. They are not allowing us to go inside."When anti-semitism in Germany targeted Jews wearing skull caps, kippa, the German government asked everyone in the country to wear kippa. The problem in India is when the Dear Leader goes to a fancy dress competition every day, he refuses to wear a Muslim's skull cap, taqiyah"What we are witnessing is a form of religious apartheid.
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