By MD Mesha

NEW DELHI (TSAT) - The growing extremism in India pushing the country into Hindu militancy as now the right wing groups using force against Muslim minorities without any fear of legal action.

The ongoing tension in the southwest state Karnataka has spread fear among the Muslims where the local Hindu nationalist government has banned Muslim girls to enter in the education institutions with headscarf.

On Tuesday, a group of extremist Hindu students tried to block a Muslim girl from entering a government colleague and chanting slogans against Muslim girls for wearing Hijab.

In a video which got viral on Social media showed that a young Muslim girl parks her scooter and going to her college building when students wearing saffron scarves shout "Jai Shri Ram" and advance towards her. The Muslim student also shouts back: "Allah hu Akbar!"

The incident spread anger across the world and people condemned the inhuman act of Hindu extremist and silence of Modi's led BJP government for its failure to protect minorities in India.

“As always,it takes a pack of men to attempt to intimidate a woman. Such frightened,pathetic excuses for human beings. Brandishing their shawls as weapons,cloaking their weakness in cruelty. A sizeable section of a rudderless generation lost to hate,” Pooja Beat, an Indian film star tweeted.

The action of brave Muslim girls who challenged the extremist widely praised and people demanded the international community to protect the Muslim girls in India.

“Salute to this brave girl for defending her right to wear hijab by choice,” said Lt Gen (Retd) M Haroon Aslam.

After the incident #HijabIsOurPride become top trend on Twitter in India, Pakistan and other countries and people strongly condemned the BJP affiliated groups acts against the Muslim girl.

“#Hijab is not just our religious identity, it is our dignity, it is our greatness, it is our pride, it is our honor, it is our life,” Sumayya Shaikh wrote on Twitter.

Meanwhile, hundreds female Muslim students staged protest outside the Karnataka high court and said they would not accept the government ban on their education. 

“We will resist against this political decision as yesterday there was no ban and suddenly government impose ban on Muslim girls to stop us from the education,” one student said while speaking the protesting gathering.

Mostly Muslim women and girls across the world wearing Hijab which is part of their religion. 

In India during the last seven decades the Muslim women never barred from wearing Hijab and local authorities always respect them as the India constitution also protected the rights of freedom of religion. 

However, the minorities came under attacks since 2014 after Narendra Modi, the hardline Hindu nationalist Prime Minister, came into power.

Last month, the local authorities in Karnataka state banned the Muslim girls from entering the education institutions with Hijab which created tension in the state as Muslim girls protesting against the unconstitutional act of local government.

According to NDTV, a local Indian broadcaster, the local right wing Hindu groups, affiliated with ruling BJP party, asked the young Hindu students to sneak saffron and blocked Muslim girls who are protesting against the local authorities decision to barred them from education.

“This is Bharat (India) and students will follow Hindu culture," NDTV quoted Naveen Gangolli, a leader of Hindu extremist Jagrana Vedike group.

Gangolli said they asked their young students to wear “Saffron” and counter the Muslim girls.

Footages on local TV channels on Tuesday showed that police who were deployed for security near the colleagues also didn’t stopped the Hindu students who were teasing the Muslim girls and trying to stop them from entering to colleague.

Meanwhile, the Dalit students on Tuesday also came out in the state’s colleges in support of Muslim girls and said they will stand with Muslims as the current government want to close doors of educational institutions on minorities and lower class Hindus.

Indian media reported that during the today faced-off between students, two Hindu extremist also tried to attack on Muslim girls with knives who were later arrested by the police.

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has called for calm as the court looks to settle the matter, saying: "All concerned people should keep the peace and let children study. The matter will be presented in the High Court... let's wait for it,” according to NDTV.

The current tension caused after Udupi college administration stopped Muslim girls from attending the classes last month and said they will not allow any girl with Hijab or headscarf.

• Minorities faces attacks and hatred 

Ban on Hijab has spread anger among the over 250 million Muslims in India and they called the act is an attack on their religion.

“The situation is really worsening as now Modi government is going to ban our religious freedom after vandalized our several mosques during the last seven years government,” Shahid Niazi from Karnataka said.

“My sister has been barred from colleague because she was wearing Hijab and now extremist Hindu threatening to our girls student,” he said and adding BJP and RSS are militants wing not political parties who just want kick out all minorities including Muslims, Sikhs, Christian, Dalit and others.