Now many Muslim women in Serbia who Dare Wear Hijab
Islamic influence is now starting to flourish in Serbia, countries in the Balkan peninsula that originally communist leanings. One indicator, more and more Muslim women are no longer afraid to show his identity by wearing a headscarf.
Earlier this month, seven women and one young adult woman wearing the hijab decided to adopt that same day after attending a debate entitled "How Muslim Women Dressed" organized by the International University of Novi Pazar. Local mufti, Muamer Zukorlic, appearing as a speaker.
Their decisions are necessarily supported by the audience. They clapped their hands after using the eight women came out with their new appearance, clad in Muslim clothing. Overall, only a small number of Muslim women who wear hijab in Serbia. But the increasing tendency of women veiled recently had to make a polemic: whether to use jibab banned or not. Corovic Aida, a human rights activist in Novi Pazar and the head of the Urban In, an advocacy NGO, said that wearing the hijab is more about fashion than faith. But the veil can also be a response to pressure from the family and the environment. "Most young women under 18 years of wearing the hijab, and most did not even realize it means," she said. |
Muhamed Jusufspahic, vice Reis-ul-ulema of Islamic Community of Serbia said the country did not need to set the fashion of its citizens. As the Muslim, he said, the choice of wearing a headscarf should be handed over to them.
During the Communist era in Yugoslavia, a law in 1950 forbidding women to wear clothing that covers the face. The rules were eventually withdrawn. Currently, there are no such barriers to women in Serbia. They can even be photographed for identity documents in Muslim clothing.
In the Balkan war, serbian put Muslims as the main enemy. Genocide of Muslims fought and massacred thousands of Muslim martyrdom.
Serbian Parliament last year to submit an apology for the massacre thousands of Bosnian Muslims in the Balkan War in 1995. But they rejected violence when it called a genocide.
Source:www.republika.co.id
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