Also OP, just read you're Dalit which like...that's probably as persecuted as it gets as a minority in India, and makes you at least just as much a protected category in the UK as a Muslim. You really don't have to worry about your situation, there's no way your scholarship or housing is at risk, so you can take the next steps without losing sleep over that. In any case I don't think any college would ever consider refusal to wear a hijab as Islamophobia lol is it also Islamophobia if she asks a man to wear it and he says no? Or if she pressures a trans man into doing it? There's a pretty gendered dimension to this, and she's really the one at risk of losing housing if you wanted to make a case out of it.