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Hamaz says strict Islamic dress;No male teachers for girl student
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by Irawwan | August 25, 2009 at 07:25 pm
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Iran backed Hamaz has imposed strict Islamic dress code on girl students studiying under the education ministry in Gaza.Male teachers should not teach girl students.Hamaz spokesman Tahil al-Nunu said the media that this move is aimed at reducing the financial burden on the parents of the girls.
Educators in the Gaza Strip have begun enforcing an unofficial decree by the Hamas leadership requiring high school girls to wear Islamic dress, despite Hamas Education Minister Muhammad Asqoul denying such a policy as recently as two days ago, Arab news outlets reported.
"Palestinian society is committed by nature and does not need decrees to force it to be so," Asqoul said, according to a front-page report by Qays Safadi in the left-leaning Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar (Arabic link). Asqoul went on to describe the media furor surrounding the decision as a "tempest in a teapot."
But, as Safadi points out, Asqoul's comments directly contradict the signs posted outside schools informing girls that this year they are required to wear dark blue robes, a white headscarf and black or white shoes.
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at 03:04 on August 26th, 2009
Certainly in this day and age, modes of dress should not be a religious mandate under penalty of death.
at 01:51 on August 29th, 2009
a Muslim woman should dress scarf, that's what I know
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at 19:07 on August 31st, 2009
OK..let it be. How about banning of male teachers?
at 09:02 on September 5th, 2009
This is a bald faced attempt to subjugate the women in that society. Morality is not determined by the clothing one wears.
at 14:05 on September 6th, 2009
This news is alie and it was denied by Hamas even that i beleive that the islamic dress is what all muslims seek but at this stage under occupation Hamas has more important issues to face than this subject , some media institutions who are related to israel and the mosad tries to give a dark picture about the people who tries to gain there freedom from the occupant state of israel , more over the dress called bourqos is atradition dress . it is not the dress that is requested by islam