Denied admission for wearing a Hijab

Npnews24 online, Mangaluru: Fatima Fazeela, 16 –year-old, student of St. Agnes PU College (Mangaluru), denied admission when she went to college wearing Hijab.

When she asked to them several times, they did not provide her official letter for denying admission. Fatima wrote a letter to the DC, the commissioner’s office, and the DGPI office of Dakshina Kannada. In the letter she mentions that she was denied admission just because of my Hijab.

They allow students to wear bindis and rakhis on their hands. Some are also allowed to wear the ring or the necklace with the Holy Cross. There are no restrictions for them.

For 11 years, I studied in UAE. Since the age of three, I started wearing my hijab in classrooms. There, it was allowed, it’s compulsory for Muslim girls to wear the hijab. The headscarf was part of the uniform there.

College had sent a message saying ‘’admission will be held now’’ around 3-4 April, when I went for admission, they directly told me, ‘’you cannot enter the college, if you continue to wear you hijab,’’ but they were not ready to give a written letter.