“They say we’re bullying our girls. Who’s scared these days?” They said.
New Delhi:
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MP Asaduddin Owaisi today said wearing hijab does not make Muslim women less than their peers, and it is their constitutional right to wear whatever they want.
“If you come to Hyderabad, you will see that the most notorious drivers are our sisters. Don’t put your vehicle behind them…I ask my driver to be careful. If they ride backwards with them on a motorcycle, they will understand if someone can force them to do anything,” he said, arguing for his choice to wear a headscarf.
“Do fundamental rights stop at the gates of schools,” he said, insisting that the country’s laws give the right to wear the hijab.
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Addressing a gathering after the Supreme Court’s separate decision on the hijab ban, Mr. Owaisi said that covering the heads of Muslim women does not mean covering their minds as well.
“They say we’re bullying our girls. Who’s scared these days?” Hyderabad MP said.
On the controversy surrounding the ban on hijab in Karnataka, the AIMIM chief said it signals to students of other religions that Muslims are inferior.
He said, “When a Hindu, a Sikh and a Christian student are allowed to enter a class with their religious signatories and a Muslim is stopped, what do they think of the Muslim student? Obviously They will think that Muslims are below us.” ,
He then insisted that a Muslim woman wearing a hijab would one day become the Prime Minister of India. “I’ve said this before and will say it again… Many people had stomach ache and heartache, couldn’t sleep at night, when I said if not in my life then a Muslim woman wearing hijab after me Prime Minister Will become of this country,” he said.
“It’s my dream. What’s wrong with that? But you’re saying don’t wear hijab. Then what to wear? Bikini? You have a right to wear it too. Why do you want my daughters to take off their hijab and I Won’t keep a beard? Why do you want Islam and Muslim culture to not stay with me,” Mr. Owaisi said.
He quoted Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia, one of the judges of the Supreme Court, who heard the challenge of the Karnataka hijab ban, and said that if Muslim girls wear hijab indie and outside their homes, why would they not wear it in classrooms, it is their dignity. A matter of. and privacy.
Challenging the BJP and its ideological mentor RSS, Mr. Owaisi said that their decisions do not matter, and Muslim girls will continue to wear hijab as they are of their choice.
“The Constitution of India allows this,” he reiterated, “you wear what you want, and we will wear what we want”.
Petitions challenging the Karnataka hijab ban led to a divided verdict in the Supreme Court on Thursday. Justice Hemant Gupta dismissed the petitions, while Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia allowed them.
Justice Gupta, who answered 11 questions in his judgment to dismiss the petition, said, “There is a difference of opinion.” He said that he agrees with the order of the Karnataka High Court.
The Karnataka High Court had refused to lift the ban on the hijab worn by some Muslim women in schools and colleges. A Karnataka minister said yesterday that the hijab ban is valid despite the divided verdict.