Rohingya stir reminds Jammu and Kashmir kids of hate at home

Jammu | Monday | 11th September, 2017

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"People give me weird looks sometimes just because I am a Muslim and belong to Kashmir. Sometimes, they straightaway ask us if we are carrying a bomb in our luggage or not," he said. "We are a mix bunch of Panjab University students, and include NGO workers, students from coaching classes and some who follow spiritual teachings of Sikhism. "Every time I am travelling to Jammu, my hometown, I am subjected to more checking and frisking at IGI Airport, New Delhi, than others just because of my religion. None of them is doing anything," said Faheemuddin Dar, a student of philosophy at PU.Some students at the protest ended up narrating their own tales of hate and discriination at home..