A decision by a school headmaster in Russia’s North Caucasus region to ban five Muslim girls from attending classes over wearing hijab (headscarf) is inviting outrage from the Muslim community.
“That is unacceptable in our religion,” Ravil Kaibaliyev, the father of one of the children, told Izvestia daily newspaper.
Five Muslim students were banned from attending classes in their school in the village of Kara-Tyube in the southern Stavropol region last week over wearing hijab.
Though they were initially allowed to attend their school in September while donning hijab, they were told later that they would not be allowed in unless they took off their headscarf.
