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World Hijab Day, a call to combat intolerance and discrimination
2-2-2018
Women from different faiths and backgrounds around the globe celebrated yesterday the World Hijab Day which falls on February 1 of each year. The celebration is a collective call for all women to wear the hijab for a day in solidarity with Muslim women who are discriminated against for simply wearing a headscarf. A statement on the website promoting the event said the aim is to create a more peaceful world where citizens of the world, men and women, respect each other in order to combat intolerance, prejudice and discrimination against Muslim women. To recall, the initiative was founded back in 2013 by a Muslim American social activist, Nazma Khan, and is commemorated in more than 140 countries. On the Lebanese front, the prime minister reminded in a new circular issued yesterday all public sector departments and institutions as well as municipalities to respond to and accept all applications submitted by qualified citizens who meet the required conditions as stated by the law, including ‘muhajabat’ otherwise, they will be held accountable. The veil should not be an obstacle to their recruitment in state jobs as stipulated in the Constitution, particularly Articles 7 and 12, the circular said. For the reference, premier Saad Hariri on January 18 has issued a similar ordinance after the minister of state for administrative development affairs, Inaya Ezzedine, raised the subject about the ‘muhajabat who applied for jobs in the public sector but were asked to take off the hijab’. (Al Mustaqbal, February 2, 2018)
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