THE TELEGRAPH: A female lecturer has been prevented from teaching at a Muslim university in eastern India by students demanding that she wear a burka, according to a report.
Aliah University in Calcutta is the first Muslim university in India's West Bengal state and has no formal dress code, but its student union has demanded that female teachers cover themselves with a Muslim veil in class.
Sirin Middya told the Indian Express she had refused to comply and had been prevented from teaching for three months.
"Most of the teachers do not like the diktat of the students to wear the burka, but they have no option but to accept it," she told the newspaper. "This is the Talibanisation of educational premises and there is no one to come to our rescue." >>> | Thursday, July 29, 2010
