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Russian school bans 5 Muslim girls from classes for wearing hijab

Published time: October 15, 2012 10:59
Edited time: October 15, 2012 14:59
RIA Novosti / Said Tzarnaev

A head teacher of a school in Russia’s North Caucasus region banned five Muslim girls from attending classes while wearing a hijab. Indignant parents filed suits at a local prosecutor’s office over the issue.

The scandal erupted a week ago at a school in the village of Kara-Tyube in Russia’s Stavropol region. Several Muslim girls of different ages were told they would not be allowed to enter the school unless they took off their hijabs.

“But that is unacceptable in our religion,” Ravil Kaibaliyev, the father of one of the children told Izvestia daily newspaper.

The children’s parents filed complaints at the district prosecutor’s office, claiming that the school had violated their constitutional rights to education and freedom of religion.

The prosecutor promised to issue a legal assessment of the incident within 30 days, and to take appropriate measures if the school’s headmaster was found to have broken the law.

School principal Marina Savchenko said that wearing a hijab violates school policy, which requires students to attend classes in secular clothes. “We didn’t insist that the girls shouldn’t wear hijab at all, but suggested they replace it with a headscarf while during the school classes,” she told Izvestia.

Russia’s Education Ministry backed the school’s administration, saying that schools are allowed to adopt their own regulations regarding uniform and rules of conduct.

However, Russian children's rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov said that the school in Kara-Tyube “is clearly overreacting.”

“There are no common rules regarding pupils’ appearance. And a hijab in this case is not some indecent item,” Astakhov said, adding that in Western countries, similar conflicts are usually resolved in favor of tolerance.

Russian Islamic clergy condemned the ban, saying that there are no laws in the country regulating a person’s appearing. Wearing the hijab is also an integral part of the lifestyle of certain Islamic faiths, a senior official from the Council of Muftis told Izvestia.

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Lida (unregistered) 01.11.2012 18:33

 "do a reasearch on percentage of rape victims on Hijab girls and exhibitionist girls and then only talk about "opression  of young girl" You dont call its opression when a girl is raped or molested?"
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Do a research on who the RAPERS are in Russia. Muslim men! I bet a white Russian woman literally enveloped in clothes would still remain a rape target. The double standard of Muslim world is that ALL white women are whores. And something tells me that it has nothing to do with religion itself, because religion is only a product of one's brain. A white Russian woman would STILL be raped EVEN if she became a Muslim and wore a hijab. Why are they asking us for tolerance when they show ZERO tolerance  to our culture, our rules, our women? Well, the truth is, because they DO NOT RESPECT IT, they do not respect anything which is not their own, and an irrespectful guest is normally kicked out of any self-respecting house. 

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1voice 20.10.2012 02:28

@Atossa
"God told His People NOT to associate with heathen non-Israelites and never to intermarry with them. God told Israel when they entered their Promised Land to drive out the other nations"
Actually God said that when a territory was delivered, an offer of peace should be made.  If it is not accepted then the city may be besieged.  All men shall be put to death but the women, dependents, and cattle can be taken.  If, among the captives, you see a comely woman you may marry her and she shall be your wife.  If you don't like her any more you can let her go free but can not treat her bad or sell her into slavery. (Deut 20-21)  That is far from how the Cherokee and other tribes were treated.  In New Mexico it was legal, up until statehood in 1912, to enslave certain Indians if you found them outside of a city.  Stop quoting bible chapters you have not read.

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1voice 19.10.2012 06:35

@ Atossa
Yes, apparently you know /something/ about Native American history and have skewed it to fit your own socio-ethnic agenda.  "So, your great-great-grandmot her was among those Cherokees who followed John Ross, who couldn't see the 'handwriting on the wall' and refused to leave for Oklahoma [Indian territory] on their own and waited until they were forced to leave." Before modern Europeans came over it was all Cherokee land.  It was all "Indian Territory".  Just because you are capable of killing everyone in a certain area does not make it yours.  "The smart Cherokees followed Stand Watie [who later became a Confederate general] and left for Oklahoma early, willingly and peacefully and so were spared the "trail of tears.""  Why don't you ask yourself 'why did they had to leave in the first place'?  Tell me: if I threaten to burn down your house at some point next year, and by 2013 you've yet to vacate the premises, then(by your logic) you should deserve to burn when I toss a Molotov cocktail through your window in the dead of the night?  I did give you fair warning, you see.  Your concept of social justice, or der, and history in general is tainted with an unwarranted com plex of racial superiority.  Whites have not proven to be superior to the Chinese; so if China decides to invade your land, then you should just move over?  What about when their numbers grow and start encroaching on your new 'territory'?

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