Dangal
fame
Zaira
Wasim
has
reacted
to
the
ongoing
hijab
row
in
Karnataka
on
Saturday,
February
21.
The
former
actress
took
to
Instagram
on
February
19
to
share
a
long
note
condemning
the
ban
on
hijab
in
Karnataka
schools
and
colleges.
She
called
the
hijab
an
obligation
to
God
and
not
a
choice
whilst
mentioning
that
she
'resisted’
the
entire
system
of
women
being
harassed
for
carrying
out
a
religious
commitment.
For
the
unversed,
the
hijab
row
began
in
January
this
year
when
six
female
Muslim
students
at
Government
PU
College
in
Karnataka
were
forbidden
from
entering
their
college
wearing
hijab.
The
girl’s
protest
against
the
college
authorities
snowballed
into
a
state-wide
issue
and
the
matter
is
currently
being
heard
in
the
Karnataka
High
Court.
In
her
post,
Zaira
said
that
she
wears
the
hijab
with
'gratitude’
and
humility
and
wrote,
“I,
as
a
woman
who
wears
the
hijab,
with
gratitude
and
humility,
resent
and
resist
this
entire
system
where
women
are
being
stopped
and
harassed
for
merely
carrying
out
a
religious
commitment.”
She
then
said
that
systems
that
force
Muslim
women
to
choose
between
hijab
and
education,
are
unjust
and
added,
“Stacking
this
bias
against
Muslim
women
and
setting
up
systems
where
they
should
have
to
decide
between
education
and
hijab
or
to
give
up
either
is
an
absolute
injustice.
You’re
attempting
to
compel
them
to
make
a
very
specific
choice
that
feeds
your
agenda
and
then
criticising
them
while
they’re
imprisoned
in
what
you’ve
constructed.”
The
actress
further
said
that
this
matter
was
taking
place
under
the
farce
of
empowerment.
“On
top
of
all
this,
building
a
façade
that
all
this
is
being
done
in
the
name
of
empowerment
is
even
worse
when
it
is
quite
exactly
the
opposite
of
that.
Sad.”
Check
out
the
post
below:
Zaira
Wasim
made
her
debut
with
Aamir
Khan’s
Dangal
and
was
last
seen
on
the
big
screen
in
The
Sky
Is
Pink.
She
then
announced
that
she
would
be
bidding
adieu
to
movies
as
her
Bollywood
career
was
at
odds
with
her
faith.
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