Bhopal, Dec. 23 -- Ms Razia Masood, a Bhopal-based Social Activist who is associated with the Jamat-e-Islami Hind Women wing, has reacted strongly to the shameless incident wherein a Chief Minister of an Indian state publicly violated a Muslim woman's personal space and attire by pulling off her "hijab" (a head covering worn in public by Muslim women).

Ms Razia Masood said that this would be unacceptable anywhere in the world, yet here, the crowd on stage, perhaps even including women, were laughing and celebrating this humiliation. This is a "New India" reveling in the worst aspects of its 'freedom'.

Ms Razia asserted that India is a democratic country and the Indian Constitution states the following:-

Article 25- Every citizen has th...