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While the ban on hijab in educational institutions in Karnataka, which has erupted into a full-fledged controversy in the country, is only about adhering to basic school uniform requirements, a segment of the leftist intelligentsia and Islamists have cleverly misconstrued it to peddle their anti-Hindu agenda. On February 15 (Tuesday), one Naomi Barton who identifies herself as an ‘Audience Editor’ with leftist propaganda website The Wire used the ongoing controversy to openly incite violence against Hindus.

A 25-year-old Arabic Teacher from Bihar, Shoeb Akhtar was raping a 10-year-old student in the Darul-Uloom madarsa in Shastripuram, Hyderabad. After the incident came to light, the Mailardevapally Police have arrested the accused on February 7, 2021.

On February 14, during an interview with news agency ANI, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath gave a warning to those dreaming of ‘ghazwa-e-hind’.

Amidst the ongoing controversy over the refusal of permission to some female Muslim students to wear hijab in the classrooms of a Pre-University College (PUC) in Udupi in Karnataka, Islamist outfit Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) has taken out a protest march in support of the Islamic attire in the Karachi city of Pakistan.

In a nation that claims to be indiscriminate at its core, how ironic it is that the true victims of hate crime, Kishan Bharwad, and Lavanya, who don’t even exist to defend themselves, are forgotten, while voices favoring Muslim women wearing burqa are amplified in the highest levels of the judiciary.

As per a report by the Kashmir Observer, Aroosa Parvaiz, a Kashmiri student who had appeared in the class 12th exams of Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education, has been getting threats for not wearing hijab. The results of this exam were announced on 8th February 2022. She has topped the exam with 99.8 percent marks.

Candle marches were organized in various cities of Jharkhand in protest of Rupesh Pandey’s murder by Islamists during Saraswati Visarjan. 17-year old Rupesh Pandey was lynched by a mob of Islamists in the middle of a ruckus that emerged when a Saraswati Visarjan procession was passing from Lakhna Dulmaha Imambada of the Nai Taand village in Hazaribagh.

Inbreeding has been creating a series of health problems in children for decades in Pakistan. The problem is not limited to Pakistan as a country, but it is a concern among Pakistanis across the world. In a recent report in DW by S Khan, the author discussed how Pakistan is facing many medical challenges due to the high rate of cousin marriages.

In response to media queries on India’s reaction to comments by some of the countries on the ongoing hijab controversy in Karnataka, the official spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry, Arindam Bagchi has curtly stated that India does not welcome motivated comment on its internal issues.