Clerics launch legal bid to overturn niqab-ban in schools
The petition said: “There is no doubt amongst Islamic scholars that the niqab is permissible in Islam. The only doubt is on whether it is compulsory or not.”
06 Feb 2017, 9:00 AM
A group of clerics have launched a legal bid to overturn a rule banning civil servants from wearing the niqab to work.
The lawsuit was filed Sunday at the high court by two lawyers and 11 clerics, of whom a majority belong to the religious Islamic group, Jamiyathul Salaf.
It follows an uproar over the education ministry sacking a teacher and suspending another for wearing the face-covering veil to school.
The plaintiffs are seeking to remove a clause on the dress code for civil servants stating that employees must “dress in a manner that makes him or her identifiable easily.”
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