ISIS Bans Burqas: Islamic State Deems Hijab A Security Problem In Iraq - The Global News

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ISIS Bans Burqas: Islamic State Deems Hijab A Security Problem In Iraq

ISIS have now banned women from wearing burkas in security centres in the Iraqi city of Monsul. Picture: Yunus Keles/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
ISIS have now banned women from wearing burkas in security centres in the Iraqi city of Monsul. Picture: Yunus Keles/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesSource:Supplied
The Islamic State bunch has purportedly banned ladies from wearing a burka, a cloak that covers the whole face, as a security safety measure in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The asserted new administer is striking to a limited extent on the grounds that the activist gathering otherwise called ISIS has beaten and executed ladies in the past for declining to wear the traditionalist article of clothing.


Aggressor pioneers banned burqas after a gathering of hidden ladies completed assaults against a few ISIS administrators, as per media reports Tuesday. Ladies wearing burqas will never again be permitted to enter structures in Mosul, an ISIS fortification, while wearing the full-body covering. Rather, they should wear gloves and bandage to cover their eyes. ISIS' profound quality police will keep on requiring ladies to wear the burqa outside of Mosul's new security run, the Jerusalem Post reported.

ISIS has a poor record with regards to ladies' rights, as per a late Human Rights Watch report. The gathering is blamed for assaulting and exchanging ladies and constraining ladies' opportunity of development, access to medicinal services and instruction.

"A few ladies said they felt profoundly embarrassed by their treatment by ISIS, and two said they felt so discouraged they had needed to slaughter themselves," the report expressed.

Moderate governments frightful of Islamic psychological oppression have banned burqas as of late, drawing feedback from Muslim and dynamic pioneers who assert the laws restrict religious flexibility and are against Islam. In 2015, Muslim ladies in the Chinese city of Urumqi in the western Xinjiang area were denied from wearing the burqa. Faultfinders assert the standard was a piece of a push to estrange the Uighurs, a sizable Muslim ethnic gathering in the area.

France banned pieces of clothing that concealment individuals' face out in the open in 2011, including a burqa, niqab, which leaves a space for a lady's eyes, and veils. In Belguim, Brussels likewise banned full-confront cloak in 2011.

While burqas are required in Iran and Saudi Arabia, some Muslim-lion's share countries have additionally talked about banning face cover to ensure national security. In Syria, authorities banned cloak from colleges in 2010, while a proposed cover boycott in Tunisia in 2015 provoked a national clamor, Quartz reported.

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