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Hijab Now a Must for Kano Girls
Arab News, Deutsche Presse-Agentur
ABUJA, 30 August 2003 — A state in northern Nigeria has ordered all female public school students to wear the hijab and will have imams lead prayers in schools, local media reported yesterday.
The education commissioner in Kano State, Ishaq Mahmoud Umar, told journalists on Thursday that the dress-code order for girls was in conformity with Islamic law, which has been introduced for criminal cases in Kano and 11 other states in predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria.
Umar also said imams will be sent to schools to lead prayers.
Kano, the most populous state in northern Nigeria, is mostly Muslim but a significant Christian minority lives there as well, mainly in the state capital.
More than 100 people were reported killed in Kano city in clashes between Muslims and Christians sparked by a protest against the US-led attack on Afghanistan in October 2001.
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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