The kufr are much more brave and dare to changing the law of Allah - how in Turkey, not just hijab is an issue, even compulsary prayers to be abolish, as well as arabic language (pls read below).
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E.U.-Seeking Turkey Forces Hijab-wearing Girls To Don Wigs
ANKARA, (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Young women
wearing Islamic-style headscarves have to go through a cubicle when
they enter the gate to Ankara University's Divinity Faculty. When
they reappear, on their way to class, they have either unveiled or
covered their headscarf with a wig.
The make-over is repeated daily under the watchful eyes of guards
enforcing a ban on headscarves, forbidden in universities and public
offices because they are seen as a fundamentalist political
statement against the strictly secular system of this Muslim nation,
Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Barring the veil, it is hard to see a difference between stylish
Turkish youths and the girls emerging from the cubicle. One - with
her rasta wig and trendy leather coat - looks more likely to be
heading for a clubber's party than a Quranic class.
"It feels very bad because I know I look ridiculous. I have no
ideological intentions, I just want to obey the rules of my religion
and attend my classes," says Derya Yildirim, 20, the hem of her red
headscarf showing under the black wig.
Hafize Kontbay says bias against the headscarf can be witnessed
everywhere: she was recently asked to leave the front row of a state
television studio and sit in a "less visible" place during a live
show, reported AFP.
Enforcement of the ban has been tightened since 1997 when the
powerful military launched a harsh secularist campaign and ousted
Turkey's first Islamist prime minister Necmettin Erbakan after his
rhetoric and policies sparked fears for the future of the secular
state system.
Mass protests against the ban have failed to impress the authorities
and, according to rights activists, an estimated 2,000 students who
refuse to take off the veil are currently unable to attend
university.
With general elections just a week away, the moderate Islamist
Justice and Development Party, which advocates religious freedoms,
is leading in opinion polls.
But dreading the ire of the generals, the party now says the
headscarf problem will not be a priority if it comes to power, said
AFP.
"I trust no political party and I do not think this issue will be
resolved any time soon," says Nurcan Elmas as she adjusts her veil
after leaving the Divinity Faculty building.
Her friend, Esra Apaydin, is quick to point out that the Nationalist
Movement Party, a partner in the outgoing coalition of secularist
Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, forgot its 1999 election pledge to
resolve the headscarf issue as soon as it came to power.
For Husnu Ondul, the head of the Human Rights Association, the ban
is a "clear indication that Turkey is not democratic". It should be
seen as a violation of human rights by a country seeking to join the
European Union, he said.
"The parties do not want to openly confront the military. They
remember very well what happened in the past," Ondul says. "The fear
is still there."
The Islamist Virtue Party was outlawed last year on the grounds that
it backed and incited anti-secular activities, among them protests
against the headscarf ban.
Virtue MP Merve Kavakci triggered outrage among fellow deputies when
she attempted to take her parliamentary oath in 1999 wearing a
headscarf. She was never allowed to take her seat.
The EU, which often criticizes Turkey for human rights breaches, has
shown almost no interest in the headscarf issue.
In 1993, the European Court of Human Rights turned down lawsuits by
two Turkish students against their universities, saying human rights
norms do not give people automatic freedom to follow religious
precepts.
In May, in what the media considered an attempt to revive
fundamentalism in Turkey while others saw it as an activation to the
Islamic interpretative judgment activities (Ijtihad), frozen for 700
years, the religious consultative council in Turkey Saturday, May
18, declared 39 religious decrees, Fatwas.
As Islamic interpretative judgment activities (Ijtihad) had been
frozen for 700 years, the Islamic council met to settle certain
issues facing Islam in Turkey in modern times.
The council, in a session headed by Mohamed Fawzi Yalmaz and
attended by 100 religious scholars, released a final official
statement concerning different controversial issues in the Turkish
society and media.
These fatwas include the refusal of the council to allow the calling
for prayer (Azan), to be in Turkish instead of Arabic, considering
wearing scarves, hijab, a religious matter and one of the personal
rights and freedoms of women, and joining daily prayers to be 3
times a day instead of 5.
