Kuwaiti MPs Call for Banning Entry of BJP Members to Their Country
In the wake of the ban imposed by the Government of India (GoI) prohibiting Muslim students to wear Hijab in educational institutes in Karnataka, parliamentarians in Kuwait have urged their government to impose an immediate ban on the entry of the members of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) into the South Asian country.
Kuwaiti lawyer and rights activist Majbal Al-Sharika have shared a copy of the letter written by the parliament to the government on Twitter.
“Domestic actions have international repercussions. I hear from friends across the [Persian] Gulf of their dismay at rising Islamophobia in India &the PM’s unwillingness to condemn it, let alone act decisively against it. “We like India.But don’t make it so hard for us to be your friends”.”
He wrote, “we can’t sit back and watch Muslim girls being publicly persecuted they said. Time for the Ummah to unite.”
The development comes after Indian MP Shashi Tharoor shared the same tweet while expressing his concern over “Islamophobia” in India.
The Hijab row started a month ago when Muslim students were denied entry into a pre-university government college in Karnataka’s Udupi town.
The saffron scarf-wearing students also launched counter-protests, violence at one college forced the police to fire teargas to control the flare-up.
The students said the hijab was an integral part of their religion and as such affirmed their right to practice their faith.
The row soon made its way into other parts of northern Karnataka where right-wing students, as well as Muslim women (supported by ambedkarite and student activists), protested against and in favour of the hijab, respectively.
Source: FreePressKashmir
