New Delhi:
Protests in Karnataka over college students being denied the right to wear a hijab were flagged Thursday by Manchester United footballer Paul Pogba, who shared an Instagram story – “Hindutva mobs continue to harass Muslim girls wearing Hijab to college in India”.
Pogba, a French national whose mother is Muslim and who started practising Islam in 2019, shared a 58-second reel originally posted by the London-based _islamismydeen_ Instagram handle.
The clip begins with a massive crowd of boys and men wearing (or waving) saffron scarves and surrounding a small group of young girls wearing hijabs. The mob, which numbers several dozen male individuals at least, can be heard shouting and chanting as the dust rises from the scuffle.
