: Karnataka’s saffron scarf protests against the hijab aren’t new. A college in Koppa saw one in 2018 #IndiaNEWS The year began on a strange note for 20-year-old Saadiq Hamza. Even though he had

@newsMNC

Posted in: #IndiaNEWS

Karnataka’s saffron scarf protests against the hijab aren’t new. A college in Koppa saw one in 2018 #IndiaNEWS
The year began on a strange note for 20-year-old Saadiq Hamza. Even though he had his head down in class, on January 3, the very first day of college in 2022, he heard his classmates plan a saffron scarf protest.Saadiq Hamza is a second-year commerce student at the Government First Grade College in Koppa, a small town with a population of about 5,000 people in Karnataka’s Chikmagalur district. Long before the rest of the state saw Hindu students don saffron-coloured scarves around their necks to protest against the hijab – the head-covering scarf worn by some of their Muslim women classmates – Koppa had its brush with the conflict. “It started in my class only,� Saadiq Hamza said. “It was four of my own friends.� The saffron scarf protest soon spread to the Government Pre-University college, where Saadiq Hamza’s sister, Shafa Hamza, is enrolled in Class 12. She was startled when she heard even her best friend had joined it.“My classmates made fun of this and kept saying ‘your partner itself is against you,’� she recalled. “I did feel bad.� But later her friend explained that “she only wore the scarf because some of the boys had asked her.� Shafa Hamza said she had grown up...Read more

Latest stock market news Twitter alternate of India

Flash it Bury this

0 Reactions   React

Replies (0)

Login to post a comment!