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India: In India, wearing hijab bars some Muslim students from class
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NEW DELHI, 09 February 2022, (TON): When the students were barred last month from entering their classrooms and told not to wear hijab, a headscarf used by Muslim women, they began camping outside the all-girls high school.
The story cascaded across the internet, drawing news crews to the front of the government-run school in Udupi district, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
Battle lines were swiftly drawn. The students began protesting outside the school gate and sat huddled in a group, reading their lessons.
The school staff, which said the students were defying uniform rules, remained unmoved.
A month on, more schools have begun implementing a similar ban on hijabs, forcing the state’s top court to step in. It will hear petitions filed by the protesting students and rule on whether to overturn the ban.
But the uneasy standoff has raised fears among the state's Muslim students who say they are being deprived of their religious rights.
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