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A state government in India issued an order on Saturday banning school students from wearing clothes that “disturb equality” amid a heated row over denying hijab-wearing girls entry into classrooms. The Karnataka government released the directive in response to several protests by young Muslim women who have been barred from schools and colleges because of their head coverings. The directive, which comes ahead of a high court ruling on the case, cited passages from the state’s education act that decreed everyone must wear the same uniform because they are part of a common family. The order mad…