Muslims have no right to wear veils while entering schools, hospitals, markets and public places in Uganda. The new development follows an incidence at Masaka School of Comprehensive Nursing when a lecturer sent out two female Muslim girls from class for wearing veils while at school.
Ms Olivia Kyere allegedly ousted Ms Shamim Nakitende and Hanisha Nangoye, on grounds that the school was not an Islamic training centre. It is said that Ms Olivia ousted the two Muslim girls because the Muslims also force non Muslims to put on veils in their schools.
One of the top officials in Uganda government who declined to be named because the issue is too controversial said that Ms Olivia was right because the Muslims also are fond of discriminating non Muslims. “So the old adage of an eye for an eye and tooth for tooth applies here,” the official said. He says that Ms Olivia is not supposed to apologise to the Muslim community for what she did because when the Muslims discriminate non Muslims they don’t come out to apologise.
Recently Makerere University also banned students from wearing veils during the examination period in order to prevent cheating exams. The government official says that if Muslims don’t want to be discriminated they should also not force non Muslims to wear veils. It is now a policy in Muslim schools, place of work and high institutions of higher learning to force girls to put on veils including non Muslims.
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