aug 07 winds of jihad
... Tunisian Government has enforced a law that states women in Tunisia can no longer cover their heads according to Islamic teachings by wearing the hijab! ...
The Tunisian government has succeeded in keeping the news away from the Muslim masses outside of its borders. ...
The Veil Controversy
Islamism and liberalism face off.
by Olivier Guitta
12/04/2006,
But the country whose government is currently going after the hijab most vigorously is Tunisia. The wearing of the hijab has been spreading rapidly in Tunisian towns, prompting President Ben Ali recently to reactivate a 1981 decree banning the wearing of the hijab in government offices, schools, universities, and public places in general. His government views the hijab as one more sign of the unwelcome but growing influence of Islamists in Tunisian society. This past Ramadan, in a reversal of the standard pattern for Muslim religious police, Tunisian police were seen tearing headscarves off women in the streets.
The authorities consider the hijab unacceptable in a country that enshrined women’s rights as long ago as 1956, with the banning of repudiation (male-initiated casual divorce), polygamy, forced marriage, and the granting of women’s rights to vote and sue for divorce. Ben Ali sees women “as a solid defense against the regressive forces of fanaticism and extremism.”
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