Sudan. In 1983, the sharia law was enacted in Sudan, and from 1989, women were forced to wear a hijab whenever they left their home. Since 2019 the hijab is no longer mandatory and there no longer is a modesty law as Sudan has become a secular state.
Iran and neighboring Taliban-controlled Afghanistan are the only countries where the hijab remains mandatory for women. Before protests erupted in September, it was rare to see women without headscarves, though some occasionally let their hijab fall to their shoulders.
High Court verdict
The Karnataka High Court upheld the ban on hijab by the educational institutes on 15 March 2022.
The ban, which first took effect in 2018, imposes a fine of 1,000 kroner for first offences on individuals wearing garments which cover the face, notably types of veil worn by some Muslim women. These include the burqa, which covers a person's entire face, or the niqab, which only shows the eyes.
Eight of Germany's 16 states contain restrictions on wearing the hijab by female teachers: first Baden-Württemberg, then Bavaria, Hesse, Lower Saxony, the Saarland, Bremen, North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin.
In 20 years they will have forgotten that hijabs were ever forbidden in Russia.” There are influential people on Mr. Salikhov's side.
Banning of headscarves. With a constitutional principle of official secularism, the Turkish government has traditionally banned women who wear headscarves from working in the public sector. The ban applies to teachers, lawyers, parliamentarians, and others working on state premises.
Women who wear hijabs (headscarves that do not cover the face) can wear them in UK passport photos, but otherwise cannot have anything covering their faces.
In July 2021, the European Court of Justice ruled that women could be fired from their jobs for refusing to remove their hijab if they work in a job that deals with the public.
The First Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, however the current sociopolitical and legal climate has allowed for various restrictions on hijab, the headscarf worn by Muslim women.
In the Indonesian Aceh province, Muslim women are required to wear the hijab and all women are required to do so regardless of religion in Iran and Afghanistan. In countries such as Saudi Arabia, the hijab is not required.
According to the school policy, a hijab can only be worn after students submit a letter from a “member of the clergy".
While headscarves have been a matter of fierce debate in countries such as France, hijabs are not banned or restricted in India, whose secular constitution guarantees freedom of religion. Wearing religious symbols in public is common in different communities.
There is a consensus among Islamic religious scholars that covering the head is either required or preferred, though some Muslim scholars and activists argue that it is not required. In practice, most Muslim women choose to wear it.
"The Holy Quran does not mandate wearing of hijab or headgear for Muslim women. Whatever is stated in the above sūras, we say, is only directory , because of absence of prescription of penalty or penance for not wearing hijab, the linguistic structure of verses supports this view", the Court observed.
Women seen in public without a veil could be sentenced to between 10 days and two months in prison or a fine. The law applies to girls as young as nine, which is the minimum age of criminal responsibility for girls in Iran.
On June 23, 2010, Nile introduced a bill into the Legislative Council to criminalize the public wearing of any face covering which prevents the identification of the wearer, including the burqa and niqab.
Later, the BJP government in the state issued an order to bann hijab inside campuses, saying that "any clothing that would disturb equality, integrity and public law and order" will not be allowed. Over the following weeks, the dispute spread to several schools and colleges across the state.
There is no compulsion in Islam, hence hijab should only be encouraged, not forced. Not everyone will want to complete hijab. Forcing people to do so is not only oppressive, it goes against the teachings of Islam.
A Canadian judge on Tuesday upheld Quebec province's ban on wearing religious symbols for public servants such as police and teachers. But there is an exemption to the law. The judge ruled the Quebec government cannot enforce Bill 21 in English schools because it contravenes the minority language education rights.
Article Italy: Burqa Ban Provision Approved by Parliamentary Committee. (Aug. 11, 2011) On August 2, 2011, the Italian Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee approved a draft law banning women from wearing full-face veils in public.
Netherlands. The States General of the Netherlands enacted a ban on face-covering clothing, popularly described as the "burqa ban", in January 2012.
Under Reza Shah it was discouraged and then banned in 1936 for five years. Under Reza Shah's successor, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, hijab was considered "backward" and rarely worn by upper and middle class people. Consequently, it became a symbol of opposition to the shah in 1970s.
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Men in Hijab is a movement in Iran and other parts of the Persian world in which men wear the hijab, or female headscarf, as a show of solidarity with their female relatives and wives. It seeks to end the requirement of women to wear the hijab outdoors.