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Women in hijab on the streets of Pune, India. Image via Flickr by Eric Parker. CC BY-NC 2.0. Protests have broken out in the southern state of Karnataka in India over the past months, after colleges in the state banned female students wearing hijabs from attending classes. The ban was backed by the state government led by the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which maintains that “clothes which disturb equality, integrity, and public law and order should not be worn.” According to Human Rights Watch, the ban is the latest example of marginalizing the Muslim minority in …