Hijab ban exposes illusion of Indian secularism: Analysts
Srinagar: The weaponizing of saffron shawls in colleges and toxic backlash against the lifting of the hijab ban in Karnataka have stripped away the remaining pretense of secularism in India.
According to Kashmir Media Service, observers said the protests are evident proof that India functions as an institutionalized, majoritarian state driven by Hindutva radicalism. They said a nation claiming to be the world’s largest democracy was seeking authoritarian control over the personal and religious choices of its minority populations.
Analysts noted that the same fascist mindset imposing suffocating bans on Muslim citizens inside Indian states also drives the brutal, militarized occupation of IIOJK. By allowing radical groups to disrupt educational institutions over a piece of cloth, India has outsourced its authority to majoritarian mobs, sacrificing the safety and education of minority women.
