Tajikistan with 95% Muslim population, imposes ban on hijab
Furthermore, the nation in central Asia, where more than 95% of the population is Muslim, outlawed the practice of youngsters begging for money on Eid.
The nation's most recent initiative to advance its "secular identity" is the prohibition on the headscarf.
In an official statement, President Rahmon Emomali stated that the action was taken with the intention of "protecting ancestral values and culture." He had previously referred to the hijab as alien apparel.
On june 19, at the 18th session of the Tajik Parliament's upper house, the law banning the hijab was approved. The house also authorised the law that forbade youngsters from celebrating Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
Thousands of males were imprisoned, according to the report, for "adopting mannerisms alien and inconsistent with Tajik culture." It stated that one of the most serious crimes was not shaving.
Furthermore, because black is typically linked with burqa, President Emomali had cautioned the Tajiks that "even in mourning, women must wear white and not black."
Additionally, he has voiced his worries about kids losing out on an education because they spend too much time at mosques. "A lot of people spend their evenings in mosques and neglect their homework," he had stated in 2005 during Ramadan.