NAIROBI (Halbeeg News) – Kenya Defense Minister, Aden Barre Duale has directed Muslim women to wear hijabs, saying government will respect the Muslim culture by making sure female Muslims dress decently.
The minister said that if anyone has a problem with hijabs, then they should look for other countries to live in.
“Anywhere where the government requires Muslims to sit… we will respect Muslim culture. We will make sure our girls wear Hijab,” Duale said. “If you have a problem with the Hijabs our girls, wives and sisters wearing Hijab and you are in Kenya, then you better leave this country.”
He spoke during the launch of the International Quran Competition which was held at Sir Ali Muslim Club in Nairobi.
The event was attended by Muslim leaders drawn from key Islamic institutions from the country, internationally renowned Islamic scholars and imams drawn from Nairobi and its environs.
A hijab is a head covering scarf that some Muslim women and girls wear in public. For many of them, the hijab signifies both modesty and privacy.
This is not the first time that the Defence CS has called for Muslim women to wear the hijab.
In 2019, he said the Ministry of Education should take disciplinary action against school headteachers who forced Muslim girls to remove the hijab.
He claimed that Muslim girls faced discrimination because of the religious dressing and asked then-Education CS George Magoha to issue a directive to protect them.
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