Anushka Pathak – Mumbai Uncensored, 12th February 2022
A class 12th topper was mass trolled by Islamists on the internet for not wearing a hijab. The incident came into limelight when the Jammu & Kashmir board of school education declared the results of 12th grade students on February 8.
Aroosa Parvaiz, the 12th grade topper from Kashmir, topped the examinations in Science stream with 499 marks out of 500.
She received many congratulatory messages on social media but soon started getting mass trolled and also received death threats on the internet.
“Bitter trolls started appearing on social media. I could not understand why the same society trolled me on the one hand and felt proud of me on the other”, Aroosa said.
Men who claimed to be the flagbearers of Islam, saw a picture of Aroosa without a head veil, commonly known as a hijab, which led to the mass troll.
While most of the people targeted Aroosa and her family for not covering her head, some went to the extent of giving her death threats.
“Begairat…. Pardah nai Kia …. Eski gardan Katt do” (Shameless woman, she has not covered her head, she must be beheaded) said one of the bitter trolls on the internet, along with many other trolls.
“My religion, my hijab and my Allah are my personal issues. What I should wear or not should not bother people if they believe in the greatness of my religion.”
“These comments do not matter to me, but my parents are undergoing a trauma”, Aroosa told some reporters.
On one hand where Karnataka is drowning in the hijab/burqa controversy, incidents like these make us think again whether a hijab or a burqa is really a choice for women in Islam. Or is it the toxic patriarchal mindset of Islam that makes women oppressed in the name of religion?
Many countries like France and Sri Lanka have imposed a ban on burqa and hijabs for the sake of women. Does India need to follow these steps? And even if it does, will the so called flagbearers of Islam give in and accept the law?
