MAN UTD FOOTBALLER PAUL POGBA SHARES CLIP SHOWING ‘HINDUTVA MOBS HARASSING MUSLIM GIRLS IN INDIA’

Fri 11 February 2022:

French footballer Paul Pogba on Thursday waded into the hijab controversy raging in India after sharing a video with the caption ‘Hindutva mobs continue to harass Muslim girls wearing hijab to college in India.’

The Manchester United star — a devout Muslim — shared the video on his Instagram stories to his 51.6 million followers where one clip shows 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 large Hindu Right Wing mob threatening a small number of Muslim school girls wearing #Hijab in #Karnataka, India.#Islamophobia_in_india pic.twitter.com/eMJCtZfiPv

— INDEPENDENT PRESS (@IpIndependent) February 8, 2022

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.

This incident happened in Karnataka

Extremists linked to various Hindu rightwing groups forcefully entered in a college to harass, bully and attack Muslim girls wearing #Hijab. pic.twitter.com/hrVqXno8du

— HindutvaWatch (@HindutvaWatchIn) February 9, 2022

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.

It is unclear when and where each of the clips was shot.

Pogba isn’t the first international figure to draw attention to the hijab protests; on Wednesday Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai said “refusing to let girls attend school in hijabs is horrifying.”

The controversy started when six girls from the Government Girls PU college in Karnataka’s Udupi alleged that they had been barred from attending classes for wearing headscarves.

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