TAJIKISTAN, a 96% Muslim majority country, has banned hijabs and other Islamic traditional clothing, describing them as “alien” and “linked to Islamic extremism”
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TAJIKISTAN, a 96% Muslim majority country, has banned hijabs and other Islamic traditional clothing, describing them as “alien” and “linked to Islamic extremism”

Tajikistan, a central Asian nation neighboring Afghanistan, is set to impose a hijab ban on its citizens after the Tajikistan parliament’s upper house passed a law on June 19 prohibiting “alien garments” and children’s festivities during two major Islamic holidays—Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. Banning the hijab, the latest in a string of 35 wide-ranging […]