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Damascus:
Giving anti-Niqab brigade a timely shot in arm, Syria banned
the face-covering veil from the country’s universities to prevent
what it sees as a threat to its secular identity.
"We have given directives to all universities to ban niqab-wearing
women from registering," a government official in Damascus told The
Associated Press on Monday.
The order affects both public and private universities and aims to
protect Syria's secular identity, said the official, who spoke on
condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak
publicly about the issue.
Hundreds of primary school teachers who were wearing the niqab at
government-run schools were transferred last month to administrative
jobs, he added.
The ban, issued Sunday by the Education Ministry, does not affect
the hijab, or headscarf, which is far more common in Syria than the
niqab's billowing black robes.
Syria is the latest in a string of nations from Europe to the Middle
East to weigh in on the veil. Veils have spread in other
secular-leaning Arab countries, such as Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon,
with Jordan's government trying to discourage them by playing up
reports of robbers who wear veils as masks.
Turkey bans Muslim headscarves in universities, with many saying
attempts to allow them in schools amount to an attack on modern
Turkey's secular laws.
The issue has been debated across Europe, where France, Spain,
Belgium and the Netherlands are considering banning the niqab on the
grounds it is degrading to women.
Last week, France's lower house of parliament overwhelmingly
approved a ban on both the niqab and the burqa, which covers even a
woman's eyes, in an effort to define and protect French values — a
move that angered many in the country's large Muslim community.
The measure goes before the Senate in September; its biggest hurdle
could come when France's constitutional watchdog scrutinizes it
later. A controversial 2004 law in France earlier prohibited Muslim
headscarves and other "ostentatious" religious symbols in the
classrooms of French primary and secondary public schools.
Opponents say such bans violate freedom of religion and personal
choice, and will stigmatize all Muslims.
In Damascus, a 19-year-old university student who would give only
her first name, Duaa, said she hopes to continue wearing her niqab
to classes when the next term begins in the fall, despite the ban.
Otherwise, she said, she will not be able to study.
"I cannot go without it", Nadia, a 44-year-old science teacher in
Damascus said, "Wearing my niqab is a personal decision. It reflects
my freedom."
In European countries, particularly France, the debate has turned on
questions of how to integrate immigrants and balance a minority's
rights with secular opinion that the garb is an 'affront to women'.
The niqab is not widespread in Syria, although it has become more
common in recent years, a development that has not gone unnoticed by
the authoritarian government.
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