ANY policy banning the hijab, or headscarf, for Muslim hotel employees is tantamount to insulting Islam and should be ignored, said Perak Mufti Harussani Zakaria.
He said regardless of hotel industry practices in other countries, a Muslim nation like Malaysia should not have such a policy, especially as it opposed Islamic law.
“What’s wrong with wearing the hijab in a Muslim country?” Harussani said in a report by Sinar Harian.
“It is known that wearing the hijab is a must for Muslim women. There should not be such requirements (ban on wearing the hijab), unless they intentionally want to insult Islam.”
Harussani told female Muslim hotel employees to ignore the ban.
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“Allah is our God, not human beings.”
Last week, the Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH) defended a hotel operator that prohibited front-line staff from wearing the hijab, saying it was international practice and not meant to be discriminatory.
MAH president Cheah Swee Hee said every hotel, especially international ones, in Malaysia followed the standard operating procedure and policy on the matter.
The issue surfaced last week when the Malaysian Labour Centre of the Union Network International (Uni-MLC) revealed that several hotel employees had complained about discrimination against Muslim workers, who were told to remove their hijab.
Uni-MLC said this also happened to hospitality and tourism students applying for internships. – November 14, 2017.
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