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Sunday 09 Aug 2015 - 11:52 Makkah mean time-24-10-1436
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Abuja, (IINA) - A leading Nigerian civil rights group has condemned calls to ban hijab in northern Nigeria, warning that any such ban would offer no solution to the problem of Boko Haram extremism, according to media reports.
The association implored the Nigerian government “to remain focused in its fight to end the insurgency and not be distracted by those calling for the ban on the use of hijab," said Hajia Amina B. Omoti, the National President of the Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN).
"It is diversionary and any attempt to implement it will be resisted by all well-meaning Muslims in the country.”
Problems surrounding Nigerian Muslims' hijab started after the latest attacks carried out by veiled Muslim women.
The calls to ban the religious outfit have angered Nigerian Muslim leaders who rejected the call to stop and search Hijab women under any circumstances, urging for more respect for women.
Muslims all over Nigeria have frown on the latest security lapses in Nigeria and its neighboring countries, demanding more respect for the rights of Muslim who are sometimes stopped and searched indiscriminately.
They have also called on the President Muhammadu Buhari's government to track down the Boko Haram insurgency which has been terrorizing the northern part of the country since 2009.
SM/IINA
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