Senior Lecturer disrespects female student’s religious freedom rips off her hijab in Bandipora School

Senior Lecturer disrespects female student's religious freedom rips off student’s hijab in Bandipora School

A senior lecturer at a school in Bandipora, Kashmir, reportedly disrespected a female student’s religious freedom by ripping off her hijab. The incident occurred on October 9, 2023, and has caused outrage among the student body and the local community. According to witnesses, the lecturer, who has not been named, was teaching a class when he noticed the student wearing a hijab. He reportedly approached her and asked her to remove it, saying that it was not allowed in the classroom. The student refused, explaining that the hijab is a…

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Choice between Hijab and education is injustice: Zaira Wasim

Choice between Hijab and education is injustice - Zaira Wasim

Former Bollywood actress Zaira Wasim has said that any woman who has to decide between wearing either Hijab or pursuing her is an absolute injustice to the women in India. “Stacking bias against Muslim women and setting up systems where they should have to decide between education and Hijab or to give up either is an absolute injustice,” Zaira Wasim wrote on Facebook. She wrote that there is an attempt to compel them to make a very specific choice that feeds your agenda and then criticizing them while they’re imprisoned…

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