Bengaluru: Al-Qaeda Chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged Muslims in India to raise their voice against the recent hijab controversy in Karnataka, which has sparked widespread concern. In a video message, the global terrorist praised college student Muskan Khan for confronting a group of students who objected to her wearing a burqa in college.
In response to the students’ ‘Jai Shri Ram’ chants, she raised ‘Allahu Akbar.’ The Al-Qaeda leader recited a poem in praise of Muskan and slammed countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh for prohibiting women from wearing the Hijab.
In a video titled ‘The Noble Woman of India,’ Zawahiri explained that he was inspired to write the poem as he was impressed by a sister (Muskan) and her raising ‘cries of Takbeer.’ “May Allah reward her for showing a moral lesson to sisters enduring inferiority complexes due to the decadent Western world,” says al-Zawahiri.
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was seen in a new video following reports that he had died. SITE Intelligence Group verified Zawahiri’s video.
The Karnataka High Court upheld the ban on wearing hijabs in school and college classrooms and dismissed a group of petitions brought by Muslim girls studying in pre-university colleges in Udupi District who sought the right to wear hijabs in class. Hijab is not a fundamental religious practice in Islam, according to the court’s ruling.
