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| 98% Muslims, yet Tajikistan Bans Hijab in Schools |
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| jaihoon |
| 10/23/05 at 04:35:38 |
| Tajikistan Bans Hijab in Schools, Universities Sunni Muslims make up around 98 percent of Tajikistan's 6.6 million-strong population. DUSHANBE, October 20, 2005 (IslamONline.net & News Agencies) – The Central Asian former Soviet republic of Tajikistan has decided to ban hijab in schools and universities. "This headwear represents a religious ideology and is in contravention of education law," Education Minister Abduzhabor Rakhmonov was quoted as saying by Agence France-Presse (AFP). He claimed that hijab serves to "propagate an ideology" Islam sees hijab as an obligatory code of dress, not a religious symbol displaying one’s affiliations – unlike the symbolic Christian crucifixes. Sunni Muslims make up around 98 percent of Tajikistan's 6.6 million-strong population. Spreading Rakhmonov noted that more Muslim girls and women were wearing hijab. "Islamic headscarves of which there were only isolated cases a short while ago have now greatly spread," he said. "For those who wish to wear headscarves there are madrasas (Islamic religious schools) and Qur'anic schools," said the official. He warned that students disobeying the new rules risked expulsion from their institutions. The issue of hijab has taken central stage in many world countries, particularly in the West, since France adopted a bill banning it in state-run schools and public institutions in March 2004. Shortly afterwards, other European countries, chiefly Germany, followed the French lead. The French ban, described by international rights watchdogs as amounting to religious discrimination, prompted demonstrations across Europe. |
| Re: 98% Muslims, yet Tajikistan Bans Hijab in Scho |
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| abdullahcohn |
| 10/23/05 at 05:55:31 |
| It isn't a Hijab ban, it is an Islam ban because he attacks kids praying too. He says that if kids pray they don't do Homework well. |
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