Malala on Karnataka hijab row: ‘Indian leaders must stop marginalisation of Muslim women’

Urging Indian leaders to “prevent the marginalisation” of Muslim ladies, Nobel laureate and ladies’s rights activist Malala Yousafzai Tuesday expressed subject approximately the latest incidents of woman college students now no longer being authorised to wait instructions at the same time as sporting hijab in Karnataka.

“Refusing to allow ladies move to highschool of their hijabs is horrifying,” she tweeted. “Objectification of ladies persists — for sporting much less or more. Indian leaders need to prevent the marginalisation of Muslim ladies.”

Her announcement turned into made as escalating protests over the latest hijab ban in faculties withinside the nation seemed to spiral out of control, with incidents of stone-pelting and lathicharge being said in numerous districts.

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday introduced the closure of excessive colleges and faculties for 3 days so that it will maintain “peace and harmony”.

The confrontations started after authorities university in Karnataka’s Udupi district banned college students from sporting hijab in the classroom. Seven college students who resisted the ban had been denied entry. Since then, protests have unfold throughout the nation, with a few Hindu college students and fringe businesses launching their very own counter-agitations wearing saffron shawls and headdresses.

Meanwhile, in a directive validating choices of nation schooling establishments prohibiting Muslim lady college students from sporting the hijab, the Karnataka authorities stated remaining week that “garments which disturb equality, integrity and public regulation and order have to now no longer be worn”.