The hard jihad of the sword, the soft jihad of the law, the gently transgressive jihad of fashion. Or anti-fashion, really, looking at the photo at the link of Moving Black Objects sweltering in a Saudi-style shapeless black gown, hijab and face-covering niqab, leaving only a slit for their eyes. Ugh.
[OneIndia] Girl students in many parts of Karnataka were denied entry into their respective educational institutions on Saturday as they arrived in hijabs, despite a court order, as the issue showed no signs of abating after its flare-up about a fortnight ago that prompted the government to close down colleges and institutions for a couple of days.
As many as 58 students at Shiralakoppa in Shivamogga district who had refused to remove their hijab and staged a demonstration against the government pre-university college administration were suspended. They were suspended on Friday and were told that they should not come to the college, a student told news hounds.
On Saturday too, they came to the college, raised slogans and demanded their right to wear hijab. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... they were not let in. "We came here but the principal told us that we have all been suspended and there is no need for us to come to the college. Even police told us not to come to the college but we came here. Today, no one spoke to us," the students complained.
Despite a government order and the Karnataka High Court's interim order restricting the students from wearing hijab or saffron scarves inside classrooms, the girls came to schools and colleges donning the headscarf. In the SJVP College at Harihar in Davangere district, girls wearing hijab were denied entry. The pupils refused to go inside without the scarf, stressing that it was as important as education and they cannot give up their right.
In Vijay Paramedical College in Belagavi district, students complained to the news hounds that a holiday was announced by the institution for an indefinite period due to the hijab issue. "We will not sit without headscarves. Let the college realise how it affects our education. The principal is not listening to us," a student told the media. In Ballari, a group of girls were not allowed inside the Sarala Devi College, which has been witnessing protests from the day the controversy erupted and the government had ordered that no one should wear clothes that could disturb peace, harmony and, law and order.
The government college at Gangavathi in Koppal district too faced a similar situation where girls were not allowed inside the college. In Kudur village in Ramanagara district, some students staged a demonstration on the college ground after they were not allowed to enter the classrooms. On January 1, six girl students of a college in Udupi attended a presser held by Campus Front of India (CFI) in the coastal town protesting against the college authorities denying them entry into the classroom by wearing hijab.
This was four days after they had requested the principal permission to wear hijabs in classes which was not allowed. Till then, students used to wear hijab to the campus and entered the classroom after removing the scarves, the college principal Rudre Gowda had said. "The institution did not have any rule on hijab-wearing as such since no one used to wear it to the classroom in the last 35 years. The students who came with the demand had the backing of outside forces," Gowda had said.
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Selective dis-empowerment. Someone's gotta do it.
We allow our sikhs to wear all their religious paraphernalia. Hindus own the country so they can wear little ponytails, red dots, whatever they want too. Christians... well, we ain't fussy about anything now. But moslems. Those recalcitrant bastitches must be snubbed at every turn, their every demand and 'human right' denied. If you don't do that they start using your own egalitarian ideas and constitutionalism against you.
Besides, the uniform culture in Indian schools has served India well, with a too diverse population with every community nursing some supremacist idea of itself and a great class divide. Uniforms help even out the social field and every student is trained to act alike and not his/her hubris demands, at least while in school. It teaches humility and unity while also allowing the have-nots a sense of decency and class and elevates their thinking from wallowing in self-pity and ending up tools for bolshevism.
[ShafaqNews] al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) on Sunday launched a large-scale operation in the turbulent district of al-Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad, to secure the roads leading to the Iraqi capital ahead of an annual religious event of the duodenal Shiite Moslems.
The operation comes in conjunction with the anniversary of Mousa ibn Jaafar al-Kadhim's death, the seventh Imam in the duodenal doctrine, when thousands of pilgrims flock to al-Kadhimiyah area in Baghdad from both inside and outside Iraq.
A source revealed earlier today that the security authorities banned trucks from entering Baghdad for four days starting from February 24 as part of the precautions intended to secure the event.
[IsraelTimes] Sources quoted saying looming accord doesn’t address advances Tehran has made since 2015, so ’agreement the US will sign with Tehran is meaningless’.
[IsraelTimes] Bennett says Israel will maintain its citizens’ security, and is getting ready for ‘day after’ the agreement; says Iran will use financial gain from deal to fund regional terror.
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[JPost] In the future, Palestinians will have an entity, but not a full-fledged state, Defense Minister Benny Gantz told the Munich Security Conference on Sunday.
"Eventually we will find ourselves in a two-entity solution, in which we respect Palestinian sovereignty and governance, but we will be respected for our security needs," he said.
The moderator, Souad Mekhennet, senior security writer at The Washington Post, pushed him on his choice of words, "entities" and not "states," given that the normative international discourse on a resolution to the conflict is often two states. This would involve the creation of a Palestinian state, alongside the already existing Israeli one.
"Did you say a two-state solution is possible?" the moderator asked.
Gantz corrected the moderator, explaining that he had chosen to speak of two entities and not two states, by way of underscoring his rejection of an Israeli returning to the pre-1967 lines.
Israel's Defense Minister Benny Gantz is seen addressing a townhall in Munich, Germany, on February 20, 2022. (credit: Munich Security Conference) Israel's Defense Minister Benny Gantz is seen addressing a townhall in Munich, Germany, on February 20, 2022. (credit: Munich Security Conference)
To speak of a "two-state solution takes us to a former framework. It’s a phrase that gives the illusion of [a return to]1967 with the border lines, etc.; things that cannot happen.
"This is why I said two-entity solution. We would verify with one another how we can ensure Palestinian rights on one hand while safeguarding Israel’s security needs on the other," Gantz said.
Only once the issue of Palestinian sovereignty and Israeli security is resolved can one move forward... for a final resolution of the conflict, Gantz said.
"We cannot ignore the existence of the Palestinians and the Palestinians cannot ignore the existence of us Israelis in the area and we must find ways of living with one another," Gantz said.
"Both sides should take historic decisions," he emphasized.
"I hope that one day we can create a new reality... to take the realities on the ground [into account]," he said.
Gantz recalled that he had twice met Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas because "We must maintain a strategic connection. We must maintain security. I am sure we must promote the [Palestinian] economy. Slowly but surely we will separate from one another and create a better reference for future discussion on what a permanent agreement would look like," he said.
The views of Gantz, who heads the centrist Blue and White Party, do not reflect the overall position of the government, which enjoys a wide range of views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Meretz has spoken of a two-state resolution to the conflict, while Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who heads the right-wing Yamina party, does not believe in talking to Palestinian officials at this time. Gantz, however, strongly advocates negotiation with Palestinians.
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[JPost] In the future, Palestinians will have an entity, but not a full-fledged state, Defense Minister Benny Gantz told the Munich Security Conference on Sunday.
