MUMBAI: The politically directed chaos unleashed in Karnataka over college students who choose to wear a hijab were flagged Thursday by France and Manchester United football star Paul Pogba, who shared a story with his 51.5+ million followers on Instagram – “Hindutva mobs continue to harass Muslim girls wearing Hijab to college in India”.
Pogba, a French national whose mother is Muslim and who only 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.
A few other men seem to be holding hands to form a protective barrier around the girls, and there seem to be only two police personnel in sight.
The clip then shows a young woman, presumably a school teacher, warily unlatching a classroom door after which dozens of boys draped in yet more saffron scarves and cheering storm inside.
The third part shows yet more boys – by this time there seem to be hundreds – waving saffron flags and dancing and cheering as they move down a street.
