MOSCOW: Several Muslim families pulled their daughters out of schools in
Russia`s south after the girls were told they were not allowed to wear
their hijabs, a top Muslim cleric said on Monday.
The Mufti of
the southern Stavropol region Muhammad-Haji Rakhimov said he had
received complaints from several parents whose daughters were for the
first time not being allowed into their schools wearing the headscarves.
The
situation resembles a `stalemate` because both the Muslim parents and
school authorities refuse to budge, and several girls including
second-graders have not been to school for two weeks now, he said.
`The
parents of these girls are not letting them go to school, which can
lead to the child welfare services taking them away,` Rakhimov said.-AFP
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