Ja’amatu Nasril Islam (JNI) has said government should not contemplate banning the wearing of hijab by muslim women in Nigeria.
ThisDay reports
The Secretary-General of JNI, Dr. Khalid Abubakar Aliyu, said on Wednesday in Kaduna at the official inauguration of the secretariat of the Kaduna State chapter of Council for Imams and Ulamas that the fact that some women wearing hijab were connected or arrested with bombings does not mean that everybody wearing hijab is a potential bomber.
He added that it was the duty of the security agencies in the country to find out if those women wearing hijab to perpetrate evils were actually Muslims, and “if so, what is their motive? It is not for the government to just come to conclusion for a straight ban on wearing of hijab.
“We as Muslims are concerned with the insecurity situation in the country. Our brothers and sisters are being massacred on daily basis in the North-east and some other parts of the country. Today, Gwoza and Damboa are no more in existence as it has been overrun by insurgents who are still advancing to take other towns. This is what should be government’s priority and not to be looking at area of banning Muslim women from wearing hijab.”