The Supreme Court of Russia ruled on Wednesday that the ban on hijabs at school will stay. Tatarstan Education Minister Engel Fattakhov said that the republic will not enforce the ban. Ismail Berdiyev, head of the Coordination Center of North Caucasus Muslims, head of the Muslim Administration of Karachay-Cherkessia and the Stavropol Territory, emphasized that mass media had no correct understanding of the word ‘hijab’ and what Muslim girls were really wearing were head-scarves.
What the Stavropol Court banned was head-scarves. Berdiyev says that it was a bad idea, because they were part of clothes and was not a threat to anyone.
The official noted that Muslims will prefer Sharia to secular education. They will stop attending schools.
Ismail Agakishiyev, an assistant professor of the History Faculty of the MSU, said that hijabs and head-scarves were totally different types of clothes. Christians wore head-scarves.
