Det prestigefyllda egyptiska universitet al-Azhar förbjuder kvinnliga studenter att bära niqab på helkvinnliga föreläsningar och i kvinnornas sovsalar. De flesta muslimska kvinnor i Egypten bär numera hijab, slöja över håret, men niqab har blivit vanligare. Regeringen beskriver i en varningstext niqab som icke-islamiskt och vill förbjuda plagget på läkare och sjuksköterskor.
Niqab förknippas i i Mellanöstern med salafism, en ultrakonservativ inriktning som främst utövas i Saudiarabien.
Egypt’s Al-Azhar university to ban niqab in women’s classes
Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, the most prestigious centre of religious learning in the Sunni Muslim world, said on Thursday it will ban the face veil from female-only classrooms and residences.
”The Supreme Council of Al-Azhar has decided to ban students and teachers from wearing the niqab inside female-only classrooms, that are taught by women only,” a statement said. The ban extends to women’s dormitories and to schools affiliated with the university, it said. The face-veil, or niqab, is worn by some devout Muslim women. Local press reported that Mohammed Tantawi, head of Al-Azhar, said last week that he intended to ban the practice in the university.
The supreme council’s statement added that Al-Azhar does not oppose the niqab, which it said only a minority of Muslim scholars consider an obligation, but it opposes ”imprinting it on the minds of girls.” The decision came after female students who wear the niqab were banned from the women’s dormitory of the state-run Cairo University. Most Muslim women in Egypt wear the hijab, which covers the hair, but the niqab is becoming more popular on the streets of Cairo.
The government has shown concern over the trend. The religious endowments ministry issued booklets against the practice, saying the niqab is not Islamic, and the health ministry wants to ban it among doctors and nurses. In the Middle East, the niqab is associated with Salafism, an ultra-conservative school of thought practiced mostly in Saudi Arabia. Most Salafis shun politics, but the creed has influenced Islamist militants such as Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
From the Palestinian territories, a small Salafi group known as Jund Ansar Allah has called on Egyptians to strike out in reaction, according to a statement reported by the SITE Intelligence Group.
”We call upon our mujahedeen brothers to start crushing the fortifications of the government of the pharaoh of this age (President Hosni Mubarak) and to strike with an iron hand all the agents and traitors.”
Al-Azhar has long enjoyed a reputation as Sunni Islam’s eminent source of learning and edicts. Salafists, who actively promote their creed, sometimes funded by wealthy patrons in Saudi Arabia, are opposed to Al-Azhar’s theological teachings.
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Nja det var en sarkastisk pik åt Cuf och övriga C:are som är ”bestörta” över motionen från två andra Centerpartister som vill förbjuda burqa i Sverige.
PI är ganska säker på dessa två menade niqab – och inte burqa då debatten handlat om niqabs. Egentligen är det ingen större skillnad. Niqab har en lös slöja framför ansiktet medan burqa består av en hel huva med nät för ögonen.
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