Muskan, the courageous Muslim girl who held fast in the face of a crowd of Hindu far-right extremists in India’s Karnataka, is a student at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial College.
Muskan’s video of her confronting the Hindu crowd at her college the day before has gone viral on social media, garnering praise from everybody for her bravery.
Muskan explained her story by stating that she had gone to her institution to submit her homework.
“When I arrived at the campus, a throng of [Hindu] radicals attempted to stop me at the entrance,” she stated in an interview with Indian media.
They wouldn’t let me in because I was wearing a “burqa,” she said, adding that some of the mob’s youngsters were making obscene gestures at her.
She went on to say, “I wasn’t frightened.”
“I began yelling Allah hu Akbar” because Hindu radicals were shouting “Jai Shri Ram,” she stated.
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“When I arrived at the campus, a throng of [Hindu] radicals attempted to stop me at the entrance,” she stated in an interview with Indian media.
They wouldn’t let me in because I was wearing a “burqa,” she said, adding that some of the mob’s youngsters were making obscene gestures at her.
She went on to say, “I wasn’t frightened.”
“I began yelling Allah hu Akbar” because Hindu radicals were shouting “Jai Shri Ram,” she stated.
The hijab scandal began last month in Karnataka when six students at the Government Girls PU College in Udupi said they were prohibited from attending lessons because they insisted on wearing their headscarves.
As right-wing sympathizers get engaged, the situation became more serious. As several institutions prohibited hijab despite regulations permitting it, many students adopted a confrontational stance by wearing saffron scarves and yelling slogans.
The demonstrations have moved to colleges in Mandya and Shivamogga. It has reverberations in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Puducherry.
Yesterday, the Karnataka High Court, which is hearing petitions from five women from a government college in Udupi challenging hijab rules, pleaded for calm.
“This court has complete trust in the knowledge and virtue of the general people and expects that it will be put into effect,” Justice Dixit Krishna Shripad stated.
