‘Religious Apartheid’ Claimed in India, as Some Hijab-Wearing Students Barred From Class
The uneasy standoff has raised fears among Muslim students who say they are being deprived of their religious rights.
NEW DELHI (AP) — 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.
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