Interesting to see a Muslim country ban the hijab and curtail other Islamic practices to protect its culture. https://theprint.in/world/muslim-majority-tajikistan-bans-hijab-as-part-of-years-long-campaign-against-public-religiosity/2141068/
Other countries must now follow suit.
Why?
Should other countries ban the wearing of the head covering married Orthodox Jewish or Anabaptist Christian women have to wear?
Yes, I’m Catholic and I have a picture of the Sacred Heart and a set of rosary beads in my house. It is not right for me to force them on others.
France has the right idea with a secular nations especially in a public facing employment role.
Plus as a woman I find them a symbol of oppression.
Someone wearing the clothing of their religion isn't forcing anything on anyone else.
I was never brought to church etc, and the Catholic faith wasn't forced upon me by the priest visiting the school as I simply said that I didn't believe in what he was selling.
My life was effected by the church and the God Botherers having a say in the laws of the country.
As for France they don't have a hijab ban.
Kemal Ataturk did similar in Turkey in 1928 but eventually Erdogan rolled back those measures.
Tajikistan has been dealing with growing Islamic militancy as the Muslim population there are now being preached to by properly trained Sunni scholars, it's great for human dignity to see the hijab banned but it's the least of their problems.
Hijab is just a scarf wrapped around the head is it not?
Not sure why it's ban-worthy.
It's just a way of showing clerics, votaries and fanatics who's in charge.
As in Egypt if religious radicals feel themselves to be powerful they might topple the government.
It’s not - nor should it be. Poster is trying the age old tactic of muddying waters.
It’s the niqab and burka we’re taking about. Which they know.
This article says it's about "foreign" clothing, and that traditional Tajik clothing is being encouraged instead. Miniskirts were banned in 2007, and this is looking at tightening up the other extreme. (Bushy beards have been banned too, so it's not only women, though overall the control does seem to be targeted more at women.)
https://www.livemint.com/news/hijab-ban-tajikistan-parliament-approves-bill-prohibiting-alien-garments-and-eid-celebrations-by-children-11718932757680.html
In recent years, the Tajik government has launched a campaign to encourage the wearing of Tajik national dress, as mentioned in “The Guidebook Of Recommended Outfits In Tajikistan,” released in 2018.In 2007, the Education Ministry banned both Islamic clothing and Western-style miniskirts for students and later extended this ban to all public institutions.
In recent years, the Tajik government has launched a campaign to encourage the wearing of Tajik national dress, as mentioned in “The Guidebook Of Recommended Outfits In Tajikistan,” released in 2018.
In 2007, the Education Ministry banned both Islamic clothing and Western-style miniskirts for students and later extended this ban to all public institutions.
It does seem pretty authoritarian, TBF. That's unsurprising in a dictatorship I guess. Banning a children's festival seems way OTT though.
Banning a children's festival seems way OTT though.
I see you left out the 'religious' bit so your post wouldn't seem so OTT .
"the Majlisi Mill banned "alien garments" and children's celebrations for two most important Islamic holidays - Eid al-Fitr and Eid Al-Adha. These Muslim festivals are known as idgardak…"
Don't know what you mean. I put up the link, so I wasn't "leaving anything out". How was my post OTT please?
Apologies, you posted a different link, that I copied, but I was referring to the link in the OP. What they banned was a religious festival - https://theprint.in/world/muslim-majority-tajikistan-bans-hijab-as-part-of-years-long-campaign-against-public-religiosity/2141068/
While the new law bans the hijab and all other forms of foreign clothing, existing laws in the country restrict Islamic prayer to specific locations, regulate the registration and location of mosques, and prohibit those younger than 18 years of age from participating in public religious activities.
And yet Catholic systems are still ingrained in Irish society despite the majority of people disagreeing with them. Where's the push for removal of cross necklaces (which would be equally as ridiculous as banning someone wearing a scarf on their head).
Its good to see a push back on religion colonizing the public space wereever it happens. If religion is to be tollerated then it needs to be a personal observance and not a political force. This applies to all countries and all religions.
The OP said that the hajib was being banned and your first post was to say more countries should do the same.
Not sure what you mean by muddying the waters when you said exactly what you said.
Once again for the slow children, it is not about hijabs.
Hijab Im okay with. Burqa, any sort of face veil, no.
Its funny because if face veils and burqas were a common part of Christianity the left would be out calling them what they are, wife-bags and tools of subjugation.
pre-date Islam too. *they're only cultural tradition, not part of Islam.
*(face veil, burqa)
I disagree with this, I really dislike the burka but think other forms of Muslim head dress are quite elegant, besides it's gross government overreach
The majority of people? What's your basis for that?
Most Irish people I know are only nominally Catholic, but fierce if their right to be like that is threatened.
How do you get an Irish person to do something? Tell them they can’t……
If we're being honest, any "culture" that makes women cover themselves up because the men of that culture deem in necessary is out of step with the modern world.
Islam will likely be the largest religion in the world by the middle of this century, we've just had a century of progress in rights for women, gay people, the list goes on, here in the West and it could all be wiped out in a few decades because of a religion so intolerant and backwards becoming dominant by virtue of its adherents out breeding everyone else.
I'd categorise the spread of any religion at that scale as a problem on par with nuclear war for the human species. We've learned these lessons already yet here we are about to repeat them.
Islam us the greatest threat to civil liberty.
Islam leaves no space for liberty.
Oddly it's "liberals" who fight the corner of Islam with the most vigour.
As can be seen in America, Christianity is literally cut from the same cloth.
Ridiculous isn't it.
Queers for Palestine and such nonsense. When they be the first thrown from the library roof in downtown Islamastan.
Thing is "Liberals" aren't liberal at all.
LOL we're talking about Tajikistan here. Government overreach, you say??
Religion is the problem, if you want to ban religion then I am all for it.
Except it isn't.
Christians aren't executing people for being gay or stoning women for adultry.
I can find a lot of fault with Christianity and all religions, but Islam is by far and away the worst and demonstrably so.
They would love to. If you can't see that it's all religions then your a hypocrite and islamaphobe.
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