Kyrgyz deputies request Minister of Education to consider rights of girls wearing hijab

Deputies of Kyrgyzstan sent a letter to the Minister of Education and Science, demanding to consider the rights of girls wearing hijab to school, a member of Ar-Namys faction Tursunbai Bakir uulu said to 24.kg news agency.

According to him, 20 parliamentarians appealed to Kanat Sadykov that, while approving the sketch of uniforms he paid special attention to girls wearing Muslim headscarves in educational institutions. "But we haven't the received answer yet. Single form will be introduced in 2015, I would like to take into account the interests of the religious," Tursunbai Bakir uulu said.

He added that Kyrgyz citizens, who don't profess any religion, discriminate against those who identify themselves as Muslim or Christian faiths. "So, secular extremism is gaining power in the Kyrgyz Republic. The religious are constantly being told that Kyrgyzstan - a secular state, and they have to play by the rules of those who don't go to the mosque or the church," he said.