Candid insights by Muslim women on the Hijab, Hindutva & the churn within Muslims | Enquiry with Shoma Chaudhury https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4NQeu_mb0E Feb 11, 2022
ZAKIA SOMAN, activist & co-founder of Bharathiya Muslim Mahila Andolan. SHEEBA ASLAM FEHMI, feminist & neo-Muslim. JAHANARA, an activist who embraces hijab. POOJA PRASANNA, deputy editor of The News Minute, who has been reporting on ground,
Hijab. And Hindutva. The uniform controversy in Karnataka raises many disturbing issues: Majoritarian bullying. Partisan government action. Right to education. And freedom to practice one’s religion.
But there are other tricky questions too. What does the Hijab mean for Muslim women? Is wearing it an act of political defiance, personal choice, or patriarchal compulsion? Is Hindutva politics forcing one to defend Muslim conservatism? What is the churn within the Muslim community itself?
Candid. Courageous. Forthright. Three Muslim women share insights: joins in.