The rate at which muslim girls get physically abused is becoming a cause for concern. Most Muslim women with hijab are frequently being abused for practising their religious right. However, this has to be widely condemned and corrected.
As part of the physical abuse withnessed by muslim girls, just of recent, a group of German high school pupils said they were threatened and spat on during Holocaust study trip in Poland. Reports indicated that girls wearing hijab were the main target of racial slurs and violence.
In addition, the group that was abused was led by their teacher, Sabeth Schmidthals. The report stated that 20 high school students were present at the trip and that the majority of them were Muslims. Also, the teacher, Schmidthals confirmed to reporters that the act of humiliation was experienced by the girls, especially the Muslim girls stating that they were called all sorts of names and after, were spat on. He further said that the students were uncomfortable there after feeling unsafe.
“I was spat on by a man in the street who then ran away”, Sheida Nur, one of the girls in the group, explained to the reporters.
Adding more to insecurity, Nur also said that police officers were idly standing by and did not offer protection during the abuse.
“We saw the policemen grinning. Then a Polish man explained that the police would not want to help us,” one of the boys in the group said.
Another abuse recently took place in a market in the city of Lublin. The girls wearing hijab (the hijab is a headscarf worn by many Muslim women who feel it is part of their religion) were turned away from a stall where they tried to buy water, allegedly because they were Muslims and possibly not Polish. However, the Polish police have reportedly denied the record of any related abused acts.
In response to the abuse, the organiser of the school trip, Haus der Wannseekonferenz, has raised alarm in the wake of the allegations and promised to take the matter up with their Polish partners. He also confirmed that a letter will be sent to the Polish ambassador to Germany, in respect to the case and other similar cases.
The hate crimes against muslims have to be abolished. In line with this, the Polish prosecutor’s office has confirmed that the number of hate crimes against Muslims had doubled from 2015 to 2016. However, Muslims are worried about this and wish something would be done fast so as to exercise their right to religion.
