- Saturday, April 20, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
One of the UK’s leading state-funded schools has called on the government to take a firm stand on children wearing hijab and fasting during Ramadan. St Stephen’s School in Newham, east London, became one of the first schools in the country to ban the hijab for girls under eight in 2016 and intends to ban it for girls under 11 from September 2018. It also imposed strict rules on Ramadan fasting, a ritual that lasts around 18 hours a day in the summer, on school premises. The school, with a majority of pupils from Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi backgrounds and…
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