Bangalore: Peace Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai, who is living a comfortable life in the UK, has come under the scanner of trollers for making a statement on the ongoing Hijab controversy in Karnataka. Now users are trolling Malala over her old statement about hijab and education.
"They were forcing women to wear Burqas. Wearing a burqa is like walking inside a big fabric shuttlecock with only a grille to see through and on hot days it’s like an oven. At least I didn't have to wear one." - @Malala in 'I am Malala'. https://t.co/1HC5RIIjdL
— Anand Ranganathan (@ARanganathan72) February 9, 2022
Malala, who found refuge in Britain after being shot by Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan, had herself raised questions about the hijab. In her book 'I Am Malala,' she had termed the hijab as wrong and suffocating. Author Anand Ranganathan has put out a tweet referring to this statement of the Nobel laureate. Ranganathan wrote in his tweet that at one point in time Malala had said, "They were forcing women to wear Burqas. Wearing a burqa is like walking inside a big fabric shuttlecock with only a grille to see through and on hot days it’s like an oven. At least I didn't have to wear one."
“College is forcing us to choose between studies and the hijab”.
— Malala (@Malala) February 8, 2022
Refusing to let girls go to school in their hijabs is horrifying. Objectification of women persists — for wearing less or more. Indian leaders must stop the marginalisation of Muslim women. https://t.co/UGfuLWAR8I
This statement of Malala is now going viral on social media. In the context of the ongoing hijab controversy in Karnataka, social media users are targeting her over her recent statement. She is constantly being asked questions about this. On Tuesday (February 8), Malala had made an objectionable statement about the hijab in the Karnataka dispute. She had shared a news item about allowing girls to wear hijab in schools and colleges. In her tweet, she had said, "The college is forcing us to choose between studies and hijab. It is appalling to stop girls from coming to school with their hijab. Women are being pressured to wear less or fewer clothes. Indian leaders should stop trying to sideline Muslim women.''
Social media users are questioning Malala, who has been interfering in India's internal affairs, that the Norway by which she has been awarded the Nobel Prize, made a law banning the hijab in schools and universities in 2017. The question of the users is why Malala did not say anything about Norway. At the same time, they are also asking how Malala, who once opposed the burqa as an oven, suddenly started favouring it.
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