Now, A Growing Number of Muslim Women In Serbia Who Dare To Wear Hijab

Now, A Growing Number of Muslim Women In Serbia Who Dare To Wear Hijab

Symbols of Islam are now beginning to flourish in Serbia, a country on the Balkan peninsula that originally communist-oriented. One indicator, the more Muslim women are no longer afraid to show his identity by wearing a headscarf.

Earlier this month, seven women and one young adult woman decides to adopt the veil that day after attending a debate entitled "How can Muslim women dressed women" organized by the International University of Novi Pazar. Local mufti, Muamer Zukorlic, featured speakers.

Their decisions are necessarily supported by the audience. They applauded after the eighth woman came out with their new appearance, clad in Muslim clothing. Overall, only a small number of Muslim women who wear hijab in Serbia. Increasingly, however kecenduran veiled women have recently had to make a polemic: whether to use jibab banned or not.

Aida Corovic, a human rights activist in Novi Pazar and the head of the Urban In, an advocacy NGO, said wearing the hijab is more about fashion than faith. But the veil can also be a response to pressure from the family and the environment. "Most young women under 18 years of wearing the hijab, and most do not even realize it means," he said.

Muhamed Jusufspahic, vice Reis-ul-ulema of Islamic Community of Serbia said the state did not need to set the fashion of its citizens. As Muslim women, he said, the choice of wearing a headscarf should be handed over to them.

During the Communist era in Yugoslavia, a law in 1950 prohibiting women wearing clothing that covers the face. The rule was eventually repealed. Currently, there are no such barriers for women in Serbia. They can even be photographed for identity documents in Muslim clothing.

In the Balkan wars, Serbia put the Muslims as the main enemy. Genocide of Muslims waged and thousands of Muslim martyrs dibantai.Parlemen Serbia last year apologized for the massacre thousands of Bosnian Muslims in the Balkan War in 1995. But they reject violence as it is referred to as an event of genocide.