Shabana Mir, director of undergraduate education at the Islamic College of America in Chicago, says mob hysteria sponsored by political leaders in India has spread from Karnataka to other states.
The Minister of Education of Madhya Pradesh recently said that the headscarf would be banned in state schools, and some university professors demanded that Muslim students abandon greeting each other with Islam (the Islamic greeting) and refrain from speaking Urdu (the language of Indian Muslims), which shocked Muslim students at the escalation of attacks. on their religious identity.
In her Middle East Eye article, Mir pointed to a disturbing recent video, showing Muslim students in Karnataka at the gate of their closed university, desperately begging the principal to allow them to enter the campus, and said that it highlights the dangerous climate facing them. The politically besieged minority in India.
Women were excluded from attending classes because they wore the hijab or niqab.
With no support from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata government, young women have turned to the media to make their case in the hope that they will eventually be able to pass their exams and pursue future careers.
With the rise in attacks and hate speech in recent years by members of the Hindu majority against non-Hindu gatherings, such violence is nothing new, with Muslims being framed as a particular demographic and political threat to Hindu nationalism.
Mir noted that with the rise in attacks and hate speech in recent years by members of the Hindu majority against non-Hindu gatherings, such violence is nothing new, with Muslims being framed as a particular demographic and political threat to Hindu nationalism.
Therefore, Muslims in India are threatened with massacres and mob attacks to force them to chant Hindu and national religious slogans. They have been severely beaten and burned alive, and their mosques have witnessed vandalism.
But now Muslim women are increasingly under attack, as Hindutva networks - the dominant form of Hindu nationalism - and their soldiers have posted fake online auctions, allegedly selling Muslim women and using insulting insults.
As with most political and ideological struggles, women's bodies end up as a battleground, and Muslim clothing is now either a virus to be removed or a cause to be championed.
The writer criticized the silence of Western human rights organizations and feminist activists who admire Malala Yousafzai that their silence suggests that their concern does not extend to the educational future of Indian Muslim women.
She concluded her article by saying that Muslim women seem to be helped only when Muslim men are the oppressors, and only as long as Muslim women are separated from Islamic rituals and Muslim societies.