@ghazalawahab Ghazala, I’m sorry, I’m rather shocked at your position. You’re missing the Islamophobic wood for the patriarchal trees. Who has the power in this situation? It’s the principal & the Sangh not the Muslim parents. See my thread addressing various arguments & scenarios.
@ghazalawahab The argument that hijab isn’t mandated by Islam is one to be had with anyone shaming Muslim women for NOT wearing it - not with Sanghis who are denying Muslim women education for wearing it. +
@ghazalawahab As for “who is teaching them to fight for this” - they can see the unfairness & Islamophobia in the ban, & the natural & just response is to resist it not to bow down before it.
@ghazalawahab Plus remember what Marjane Satrapi who resisted & resented the enforced hijab in Iran as a schoolgirl said on the hijab ban in France, now her home: if you forbid a teenager/young woman from something you’re guaranteeing they will do it as defiance & resistance.
@ghazalawahab Scores of Hindu women in my organisation in the rural & urban working class cover their heads in public. We NEVER tell them not to. Some of them, as they get involved in activism, decide they don’t want to do that any more.
@ghazalawahab Being forced by Sangh pressure on the college to remove their hijab doesn’t “liberate” Muslim women, it humiliates them. Left to themselves, each of them will get clarity later in life on why they are wearing the hijab - and decide whether or not they want to continue doing so.
@ghazalawahab Some may decide it’s a publicly visible Muslimness which they want to embrace defiantly in the face of hate. Others may decide that head scarf is in keeping with their interpretation of Islam.
Others may decide the opposite. Yet others may reject patriarchal pressure to wear it.
@ghazalawahab But that decision has to come from each of THEM! Their victory doesn’t lie in whether or not they wear a hijab. It lies in their being able to attend school in spite of Sanghi harassment. That’s the battle here.
@ghazalawahab Let me also add here that those dharm ke thekedars shaming and abusing Muslim women who choose NOT to wear the hijab are just as bad as the thekedars of the other dharm who are forcing them to choose between school & hijab.
@ghazalawahab If the girls were protesting forced hijab or denial of right to education for violating a “modest” dress code I’d be with them. Right now they’re protesting the denial of right to education because they choose to wear a hijab - and we must all be with them!

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Feb 4
On the one hand, auction Muslim women online & threaten to sexually enslave them. On the other, deny them the right to education. That’s BJP policy.
#thread on how the ban on hijab is not only unconstitutional but absurd.
Kerala HC has clearly held that it was unconstitutional for CBSE to prevent girls in hijab from taking exams. The same applies here in Karnataka. indiankanoon.org/doc/185172001/
Let’s take objections to the hijab in colleges, one by one.
1) It’s patriarchal.
Well, the official Lok Sabha site has a photograph of one of the chairpersons, Smt Rama Devi, with her head covered. Likewise MP @HarsimratBadal_; hijab/dupatta - potato-potahto.
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To all those spreading communal spins, here is something I’ve learned today through members of the Bhedkut and Sansi communities: Bhedkuts are nominally Hindu but follow many Sikh practices and customs. I was directed to this website #thread bhedkut.blogspot.com/p/bhedkut-pron…
As the person from the Bhedkut community who runs this website explains “Bhedkut call themseleves Hindu but their traditions are same as Sikh Dharam . Marriages and other ceromonies are based on Sikhism” bhedkut.blogspot.com/p/bhedkut-pron…
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The age of marriage for all adults should be 18. If you’re old enough to choose a government, decide the country’s future you’re old enough to decide your own future; to marry or not. Support women’s autonomy, don’t force women to marry, don’t criminalise consensual relationships
Early pregnancies can be injurious to women’s health - the answer to that issue isn’t to criminalise adults who decide to marry. The answer is to ensure that women have the autonomy to decide if or when to marry, if or when to bear children.
For the BJP, health of young women is a mere pretext to criminalise women’s choice in love & marriage - something they are already doing through “anti conversion ordinances” & violent Sangh outfits that attack inter caste & inter faith couples.
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What Ms Ranade calls “freebies” are in fact the opposite of “free = unearned”: they represent a “minimum” fraction of the wealth workers and farmers actually produce by their labour. My response to the anti Left tirade by @sonaliranade kavitakrishnan.substack.com/p/why-would-a-…
If we agree with Ms Ranade the Hindu majority was magnanimous enough to include Muslims & Christians in the idea of India, we imply it’s ok for Hindus to feel that in return for such magnanimity, the least Muslims & Christians can do is to avoid eating beef & converting Hindus.
Is it perhaps this shadow of Hindu supremacist ideology (the notion that India’s character as a nation & the rules for living in India are for the Hindu majority to decide) in secular liberal & left common sense that has helped land us where we are? bit.ly/3yv7D7k
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Dec 7, 2021
@sonaliranade Here’s a point by point take down to all that’s wrong with your tweets:
1) Since 1920s some Hindus have demanded a Hindu SUPREMACIST nation in which others will be treated like Jews in Nazi Germany. No one has a RIGHT to such a nation.
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@sonaliranade 2) Yet your question is pointless since Hindu supremacists have freely exercised the political freedom to demand a Hindu supremacist nation without any hurdles (barring the brief RSS ban). They have used parliamentary space to promote that agenda through hate speech with impunity
@sonaliranade 3) Just as whites don’t enjoy a right to a white supremacist nation, Hindus don’t have any entitlement to a Hindu supremacist nation. Likewise no one has a right to a Buddhist supremacist nation (like Myanmar) or an Islamist supremacist nation (Taliban in Afghanistan).
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First they came with the NRC, and I thought, what’s the harm with just identifying the “infiltrators”?

Then they called the “infiltrators” termites - and I said, that’s not nice, they’re just illegal immigrants.
Next they began evicting the illegals and demolishing their homes, and I said, well the indigenous do need the land, but can’t you clear the settlements after the rains?
And then I saw with horror - my own brother dancing with such glee on that human chest with a neat red hole in it, saying “it’s great to kill termites”.

And I asked in shock, how and when did this happen? When did my own brothers become addicted to this drug of hate?
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