{"id":82001,"date":"2022-02-16T14:59:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T14:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=82001"},"modified":"2022-02-16T14:59:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T14:59:18","slug":"students-forced-to-take-off-their-headscarves-before-entering-schools-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/82001-students-forced-to-take-off-their-headscarves-before-entering-schools-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Students forced to take off their headscarves before entering schools in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"566\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/02\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f2-\u06f1\u06f6_\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f3\u06f7-\u06f1\u06f5-1024x566.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/02\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f2-\u06f1\u06f6_\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f3\u06f7-\u06f1\u06f5-1024x566.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/02\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f2-\u06f1\u06f6_\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f3\u06f7-\u06f1\u06f5-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/02\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f2-\u06f1\u06f6_\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f3\u06f7-\u06f1\u06f5-768x424.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/02\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f2-\u06f1\u06f6_\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f3\u06f7-\u06f1\u06f5.jpg 1187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Activists on social networking sites in India circulated video clips showing Muslim students and workers in a school in the southern state of Karnataka, forced to remove the hijab before entering the school.<br>The clips show a woman who appears to be a school official giving instructions to girls and parents.<br>Commenting on the clips, Indian activist and journalist Donita Jos said, &#8220;The school is forcing these people to take off their headscarves in the middle of the road. 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We should not wait for any sympathy from the government, but isn&#8217;t there a part of dignity left for teachers and school management?&#8221;<br>Indian teacher and activist Katyusha said, \u201cForcing women and girls to remove a piece of their clothing in public is a violent crime, stop the systematic oppression of women in India.<br>Karnataka reopened some schools after they were closed after the outbreak of demonstrations last week in protest against the prohibition of female students from wearing the veil in classes.<br>The issue, which India&#8217;s Muslim minority is widely seen as an attempt to marginalize by the authorities in a Hindu-dominated country, has exploded at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is preparing to contest elections in key states.<br>Karnataka is dominated by Modi&#8217;s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists on social networking sites in India circulated video clips showing Muslim students and workers in a school in the southern state of Karnataka, forced to remove the hijab before entering the school.The clips show a woman who appears to be a school official giving instructions to girls and parents.Commenting on the clips, Indian activist &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":82003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,31,30],"tags":[2015,37,357],"class_list":["post-82001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-news","category-world","tag-headscarve","tag-india","tag-school"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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