“Refusing To Let Girls Go To School…”: Malala Yousafzai On Hijab Row

New Delhi:

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has weighed in on the controversy over Muslim college students alleging that they weren’t allowed to enter campuses and lecture rooms sporting the hijab in Karnataka. The women’ training activist tweeted that “refusing to let ladies go to highschool of their hijabs is horrifying.”

The hijab protests started final month on the Authorities Women PU School in Karnataka’s Udupi when six college students alleged that they’d been barred from lessons for insisting on sporting the scarf. Proper-wing teams in Udupi and Chikkamagaluru objected to Muslim ladies sporting the hijab to class.

Quickly, the controversy spilled beyond the borders of Karnataka and surfaced in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Puducherry. A minister in Madhya Pradesh dominated in favour of “self-discipline” and a “uniform costume code”. In Puducherry, the authorities have requested the top of a authorities faculty to research allegations of a trainer objecting to headscarves at school.

Ms Yousafzai, being attentive to the developments, tweeted, “Refusing to let ladies go to highschool of their hijabs is horrifying. Objectification of girls persists – for sporting much less or extra. Indian leaders should cease the marginalisation of Muslim girls.”

“School is forcing us to decide on between research and the hijab”.

Refusing to let ladies go to highschool of their hijabs is horrifying. Objectification of girls persists – for sporting much less or extra. Indian leaders should cease the marginalisation of Muslim girls. https://t.co/UGfuLWAR8I

— Malala (@Malala) February 8, 2022

All faculties and faculties in Karnataka will be shut for the next three days. Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai has appeals “to take care of peace and concord”. The Karnataka Excessive Court docket is listening to petitions filed by 5 girls from a authorities school in Udupi, questioning hijab restrictions. The listening to will proceed right this moment.

Ms Yousafzai was born in Pakistan. She was shot at by Taliban terrorists in 2012 when she was solely 11 for talking out publicly on behalf of ladies and their proper to be taught, which made her a goal in Pakistan, the place, in her personal phrases, “welcoming a child woman is just not at all times trigger for celebration.”

She was taken to a hospital in Birmingham, the place she recovered and later continued her activism for training for the woman baby. In 2014, after months of surgical procedures and rehabilitation, she joined her household of their new dwelling within the UK. Along with her father’s assist, she arrange Malala Fund, a charity devoted to giving each woman a chance to realize a future she chooses.

In recognition of her work, Ms Yousafzai obtained the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2014 and have become the youngest-ever Nobel laureate. She went on to check Philosophy, Politics and Economics on the College of Oxford and graduated in 2020.