We have documented the 1992 Ajmer Serial rapes, which involved a group of Muslim men in India abducting, raping, and making objectionable videos of hundreds of Hindu students. A recent incident in Karnataka, India, sheds light on the fact that some Muslim women, irrespective of their education, profession, or age, can harbor similar hatred towards non-Muslims and engage in harmful actions. At Netra Jyoti College of Udupi, a respected educational institution that also serves as a hospital for the visually impaired, three female Muslim nursing students named Alimatul Shaifa, Shabanaz, and Aliya were suspended after a mobile camera was found in the women's bathroom.
It was revealed that they had been secretly recording private moments of female students from the Hindu community and sharing these videos with male students from their own community via WhatsApp. Subsequently, other students informed the college administration about this disgraceful behavior, leading to conflicts among students from both communities and an altercation involving the perpetrators and several other students.
In response to the situation, Hindu organizations intervened and compelled the college administration to take decisive action against the offenders, resulting in their suspension. College students have called on the local Superintendent of Police, Akshay Hoque, to thoroughly investigate the incident, though no formal case has been registered yet.
It is worth noting that Udupi is the same town where five Muslim female students had previously protested against a dress code that banned wearing the hijab within educational institutions, sparking violent protests, riots, vandalism, and stone pelting in some parts of India. The Muslim community argued that their girls had the right to wear the hijab even in front of male classmates, challenging the traditional uniform policy of the Indian education system. It is ironic that the same community, which refuses to abide by uniform norms on the grounds of remaining covered in front of males, engaged in recording vulnerable moments of women from other communities and sharing the videos with men from their own community to exploit their vulnerability.
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