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Egypt Presses Government Employees To Stop Wearing Niqab

By Howard M. Friedman

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Egypt's Ministry of Religious Endowments has held the first in a series of seminars designed to convince Muslim women in government jobs to stop wearing the niqab-- the full face veil. Those attending the seminar were given a book titled "Face Veil is a Custom not a Religious Obligation." Al Arabiya reports today that this follows a ban earlier this month imposed by the Ministry of Health on nurses wearing the niqab in hospitals. The government campaign is aimed at convincing women that the headscarf is sufficient under Islamic law.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).

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