Hijab: Where is the tolerance? By BASHIR ADEFAKA A NIGERIAN Muslim girl reportedly made a record which reserved a place for her among the World’s 50 Smartest teenagers. Saheela Ibraheem, only 16, made the headlines earlier last year when she was accepted into Harvard University, making her one of the youngest students ever to attend that school as a rising talent. Saheela was also accepted at 13 in other colleges, including prestigious MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Brown, Princeton, Columbia, and the University of Chicago. This rock-star genius uses the Muslim head covering, hijab, to school and attended a public secondary school, Conackamack Middle School in Piscataway for most of her high school studies. If Saheela had been transferred to Nigeria to complete her secondary school education in a public school, particularly in Lagos or Ogun state during the same period, she would have been denied access to education based only on the fact that she wears a hijab; something that did not matter to the school authorities at Conackamack Middle and other educational institution she attended.
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 09:26:58 +0000
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