‘Not Just Manipal’: Muslim Students across India say they are being targeted with Hate Speech in Classrooms

'Not Just Manipal': Muslim Students across India say they are being targeted with Hate Speech in Classrooms

Muslims students say they face hate inside the classroom, both from peers and, even more troublingly, from teachers By: Zafar Aafaq Last week when the video of a Muslim student confronting his teacher at Manipal University in Karnataka went viral, it triggered an unpleasant memory in the mind of 21-year-old Humza Siddique. In the video, which sparked a massive uproar on social media, a young engineering student berates his teacher, telling him that it was not funny to crack jokes about his religious identity. The teacher had compared his Muslim…

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