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| Russian Islamophobia in the Caucasus. Astrakhan Medical University officially discriminates against Muslim women | |
| 2023-09-04 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] Today, there were reports that female students of the Astrakhan State Medical University were officially banned from coming to the university in mandatory Muslim headscarves. Muslim students wearing the hijab are complaining about threats of expulsion from the administration of the university for violating the “appearance rules”. Hundreds, if not thousands, of Muslim girls and boys from all regions of the North Caucasus Federal District study at the Astrakhan State Medical University. The problem of infringement of Muslim women on religious grounds in this university, as in many other Russian educational institutions, has existed for more than a year. So, university students complained about the ban on appearing in an educational institution in headscarves back in 2016. The ban on wearing the hijab is enshrined in the Regulations on the appearance of students and university staff. In it, this is presented as “a ban on wearing clothes and accessories that indicate belonging to a particular nationality or religion.” But the hijab is not a “demonstration of belonging”, but a mandatory form of dress for women who practice Islam.
This document is published on the website of the university. In addition to the discriminatory ban on the hijab, this provision contains many other episodes of outright discrimination against a citizen and an invasion of a person's privacy. Thus, the university forbids its employees and students from wearing skirts below 20 cm from the knees, and students from wearing “non-conservative beards”. At the same time, the university "does not recommend" overly tight necklines, transparent blouses and other revealing forms of clothing. Feel the difference between "prohibited" and "not recommended"? It is a fact that Russia has been systematically fighting Islam for many years and discriminating against Muslims on religious grounds. At the household level, this is especially evident in those regions where Muslims are religious minorities. However, in Muslim Chechnya, things are no better, and even worse, when it comes to people who profess “non-traditional” Islam. After all, as we remember, Kadyrov has repeatedly declared the followers of that form of Islam, which is the state religion in Saudi Arabia, to be shaitans and terrorists, whom he "destroyed and will destroy." | |
| Posted by:badanov |