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Do not deny Muslim girls hijab in schools-SUPKEM
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Abdullahi Salat, SUPKEM secretary addressing the media at a past event. (courtesy)
NAIROBI—Abdullahi Salat, the Secretary of Supreme Council of Kenya wants the Ministry of Education to address hijab issue mostly worn by Muslim students in schools.
Mr. Salat has noted that despite a court of appeal judgment in Nyeri directing the ministry of education to put in place strategies to ensure no discrimination takes place against Muslim students; provocation is still rampant in most schools at county and national levels.
He gave an example of St Paul Kiwanchani, a school managed and sponsored by Methodist Church in Isiolo county which successfully petitioned the High Court to ban girls who practice Islam from putting on the hijab while in school, A bdullahi has accused the ministry of remaining silent on this issue.
“For us, this is discrimination and as Muslim leaders, we shall not remain silent,” he noted. He added that most school boards lack proper representation of Muslims and therefore don’t have people to advise them on the issue.
The SUPKEM secretary has demanded that the schools involved to address the matter immediately, failing to do so, SUPKEM will shame them.
“The order that the school uniform policy indirectly discriminates against female Muslim students is set aside and substituted with one which says that it so far prevents them from manifesting their religion through the practice and observance of wearing the hijab,” Part of the Court of Appeal judgment read.
