Hijab: Muslim Women Lament Harassment, Stigmatisation
— Jan 27, 2016 10:34 am |Nigeria Muslim women on Tuesday lamented the stigmatisation and harassment of women in hijab across the country.
The national Amirah of Al-Mu'minaat organisation, Hajiya Nimatullah Abdullateef, who stated this at a press conference in Lagos to herald the forthcoming World Hijab Day, said Muslim women were worried by the way the Nigerian army harassed women within and outside conflict zones just because they put on hijab, which was a symbol of the Muslim faith.
According to her, Muslim women remembered with painful nostalgia the hopefully isolated incidents of harassment, persecution, emotional and psychological anguish hijabis had suffered in Nigeria in recent time, especially after President Muhammadu Buhari's statement that the nation might consider a ban on hijab if terrorists continued to use women in hijab to bomb innocent Nigerians.
Abdullateef said the attempt by authorities of the Nigeria Identity Management Commission, (NIMC), Ibadan office to legislate and limit the hijab standards of Muslim women and free citizens of Nigeria still remained a festering sore in "our heart, while we note with suppressed anguish the harassment of Muslim women in hijab by officers and men of the Nigerian army within and without military installations in different cities all over Nigeria."
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