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Druze community leader calls for respecting women committed to the faith
20-2-2018
The Sheikh Akl of the Druze community, Naim Hassan, demanded in a press conference yesterday, the interior minister to follow the mechanism adopted earlier and which observes religious diktat regarding the issuance of identity cards for the Mouahidat (women who are religious devotees). Hassan maintained that the traditions deep-rooted in the religion of Al Mouahidoun require “faith-initiated women to wear a modest attire, including a niqab to cover the head, and this is something that cannot be waived,” as he put it. He warned that, any restrictions to this effect are dubbed an encroachment on women’s rights and freedom and a deprivation of their identity. Noting the unsatisfactory results and failure of the ministry for more than a year to issue said IDs, Hassan appealed to authorities concerned to respect spiritual traditions of the Druze Community and take the necessary measures in observance of the particularities credited by the sheikhdom of akl in order to facilitate the release of their identity cards. (Al Mustaqbal, February 20, 2018)
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