The number
of Tunisian girls wearing Hijab is on the rise
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By Hadi Yahmid,
IOL France
Correspondent
PARIS, February
3 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - In a move seen as the first of
its kind, a Tunisian female lawyer and human rights activist filed
a lawsuit to revoke Law no. 108 of 1981, which banned Tunisian
women from wearing Hijab (headscarf) inside the state-run bodies.
In press
statements to IslamOnline during a symposium in Paris, Saida al-Akrami
said she is absolutely convinced that this controversial
well-known law brazenly violates the basics rights enshrined in
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that
everyone has the right to freedom of religion and choose the
clothes which suit him/her.
The Tunisian
lawyer said the incumbent Tunisian authorities revitalized the
anti-Hijab law, noting that “the implementation of this law
sharply conflicts with the Tunisian Constitution, which stipulates
that Tunisia is an Islamic country.”
Akrami asserted
that five Tunisian female university students were referred to the
university’s disciplinary council for refusing to take off their
Hijabs inside the campus, adding that another civil servant was
given a three-month suspension for the same reason.
Anti-Hijab
Campaign
Akrami further
said that the religious wake-up witnessed by Tunisia recently and
the increasing number of Tunisian girls wearing Hijab had forced
the Tunisian authorities to take a hard-line approach in
implementing this notorious law, pointing out that an MP with the
ruling party demanded the government stand up to the “phenomenon”
of Hijab in Tunisian society.
The Tunisian
league for human rights, for its part, recently released an
unprecedented statement, calling on the Tunisian authorities to
put an end to their anti-Hijab campaign.
In 1981,
Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba (1956-1987) ratified the law,
which banned Tunisian women from wearing Hijab in state offices.
In 1929, a
youngman, 26, lashed out at an impudent woman for calling for the
liberation of women, urging that Hijab made the Tunisian identity
and rejected the call for taking it off.
The young man
started defending his “case” by publishing a number of articles in
Tunisian and French newspaper on Hijab. Ironically enough, that
youngman was Habib Bourguiba.
Source:
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