Cambodian prime minister tells schools to allow Muslim headscarves Sep 11, 2008
DPA
Phnom Penh - Cambodian public and private schools have been advised by Prime Minister Hun Sen to allow Muslim students to wear headscarves if they so wish in an official decree published widely in national media Thursday.
'They can wear uniform according to school's internal regulation or their traditional Muslim clothes,' the directive said.
Hun Sen's directive to allow Muslim students to wear the hijab, or headscarf, was in the national interest, it said.
Cambodia's Cham Muslim minority, which is estimated to number in the hundreds of thousands, is generally well integrated into the majority-Buddhist society and Cambodia has avoided religious tensions such as those in neighbouring Thailand's restive south.
However the failure of some schools to be flexible in their dress codes has reportedly led to some Muslims, especially females, dropping out of school rather than going against their beliefs.
The Cham, descendents of the once-mighty Champa kingdom which reached its peak in the 9th century, suffered systematic and terrible abuse at the hands of the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge regime, with an unknown number slaughtered for their beliefs.
But Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party, which has governed in one form or another since 1979, has gone to great lengths to grant the nation's Muslims equal rights and mainstream acceptance under a constitution which enshrines freedom of worship.
'They can wear uniform according to school's internal regulation or their traditional Muslim clothes,' the directive said.
Hun Sen's directive to allow Muslim students to wear the hijab, or headscarf, was in the national interest, it said.
Cambodia's Cham Muslim minority, which is estimated to number in the hundreds of thousands, is generally well integrated into the majority-Buddhist society and Cambodia has avoided religious tensions such as those in neighbouring Thailand's restive south.
However the failure of some schools to be flexible in their dress codes has reportedly led to some Muslims, especially females, dropping out of school rather than going against their beliefs.
The Cham, descendents of the once-mighty Champa kingdom which reached its peak in the 9th century, suffered systematic and terrible abuse at the hands of the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge regime, with an unknown number slaughtered for their beliefs.
But Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party, which has governed in one form or another since 1979, has gone to great lengths to grant the nation's Muslims equal rights and mainstream acceptance under a constitution which enshrines freedom of worship.
17 comments:
The kingdom of Cambodia is not a Moslem country.
Religious liberty is admitted by the laws of our country.
I wish that this Prime Minister's decision having given the matter much thought and is discussed with all the political persons in charge and the civil organizations of our country.
For to carry a religious sign in the public places is more than to practice its religion but this is to show a sign of identity claim.
We have an example here where the political parties of opposition can exercise profitably their role of critics and of suggestions.
12:44am SHOULD PEOPLE STOP WEARING BUDDHA OR CRIST NECLASS TOO?
wHY ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF RELIGION DUDE?
Dont forget if Islam becomes state religion, it will not tolerate any other religion...only one GOD AllaH! not even you asshole HUN sen. look at history how Islam swallowed Buddhist in Indonesia...You can come to Wat and you dont have to be buddhist...not for the Islam though...you have to wear scarf and you got to be moslem to get in the mosque!
12:44AM you are a stupid communist mothe fucker!!!
4:25AM you may read the wrong book! not all Muslimcountry are like that! Lokk one next to you Malasia and Indonesia!
And you foll have to work hard not to let people run away from you!
TO 4:25am
I agreed with your comments 100%, AH HUN SEN has done so much wrong to poor CAMBODIA. Please someone kill him and send his soul to ALLAH! We Khmers are the owner of Cambodia and AH HUN SEN has not done a damn thing. He does all favors for CHAMS,and YOURNS. These fucking parasites living in Cambodia for too long. Now they want their right, their language, tradition. Go claim CHAMPA from VIETNAM you COWARD mother fucker. CAMBODIA is too small, we don't have enough room to fit your fucking assholes. MAN WHAT THA FUCK WRONG WITH CAMBODIA'S LEADER!
TO 4:29AM,
MUSLIM BITCH, open your fucking eyes! Only two countries that's all! WOW very impressive! Hey try to open a Buddhist Temple, in Saudia Arabia, Kuwait, Algeria,
Yemen, Pakistan, etc. However, Mosque can be built anywhere around the world.
You fucking retard! Don't talk shit to me BITCH, and GO COVER YOURSELF as I don't want to see your fuck ugly face anyway.
I LOVE YOU ALL KHMERS, AND AH HUN SEN PLEASE DIE SOON AS YOU ARE KILLING CAMBODIA RIGHT NOW.
I think this might solve the social differences if they trust each others. and learn how to be together.
8:40 AM
You piece of shit ignorant racist cocksucker. I am a Buddhist Khmer and I support any person of any religious background to do what they wish. Fuck you and everyone who calls for freedom this and that but when someone else wants it, you object. Stop being a fucking hypocritical fuck, you fucking asshole. If anyone needs to be dead, it would be people like you. Go jump off a building, fucker.
Khmer where once great warriors, and Phnom Penh was a pearl of the orient in the 70's. Now is the ghetto and renowned whorehouse in Southeast Asia. By reading the above posts, no one can deny the next generation of khmer are lacked of wisdom and unreasonable to debate socially. Khmer mentality is simply predictable, thus easy to colonize. There are no nationalism and patriotism in Khmer hearts. Will Khmer be the next champa? Most likely. Congratulations CPP supporters!!!!
Demagogy! Look at the former Islamic sovietic States which had gained independenace after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The at least benefit someting from the Coomunist regime: Litteracy >90% and women don't wera the veil, A kind of westernization of Islamic State,
I really hate the veil, I hate it, I hate it.....
Let thing go like before when Muslim Khmers or Khmer Islam wear vonlontary and without any pressure, costumes like other Khmer.
Hun Sen and The Buttock licker Amad Yaya will create social or ethnic problem, instead of Khmer Unity.
And with aid from rich Arab Countries,our Compatriots Cham will be close to the Arab world than to Cambodia.
Dont forget that statue of Buddha was destroyed to ash in Aghasnistan...No other religion is allowed besides Islam....with the help of Kuwait muslim will gain ground day by day...bunch of buddhists already been converted...and when they are strong enough they will claim their own state!
If we encourage the development of the Islam to Cambodia, I think in 20 years, the kingdom of Cambodia will know with the Islam the same problems that those that know Thailande currently with his Moslem minority.
Because it is very difficult to prevent the extremist religious to use the religion to realize political objectives.
This Prime Minister's decision , according to my personal opinion, is not a very good thing.
I wish to make a mistake.
Good or bad, but that is how Mr. Hun Sen gains those ballots in the election. You have to recognize and accept other that are different than you! Bad and no way out if you don't. People want freedom to do thing just like you. Sorry...to say that most arab world or countries are pretty ignorant, but the whole world are working on it and in America McCain will win the election, because no one know better how extreme of some of those extremist of the islamic religion people are, but the American people and Mr. McCain. Anyway, American ( & Mr. McCain ) continue to love and support the good islamic people, let them wear their scarf or whatever. Many people would agree that there are good poeple from every religion and people are working to get rid of the bad one. That is the McCain campaign is all about. To protect the good from the evil and he will win!
In fact people that are not wearing scarf look better and more accepting than the one that wears black scarf in the middle of day light. Wouldn't you think?, but it's their religion and their practice. Beside in the arab world there is nothing, but the Sun and the sand and those salty water. It makes sence to wear black,because shade is needed so bad. Moslim women wear scarf also to protect their faces out of fear. they believe that their brothers or fathers or male cousins and second cousins would attack them with the acidic liquid in their faces, if they don't wear scarf or if caugh smiling or flirting with other male counterpart. They are scare to death both of sin thu their extremist religion and of their males dominant. So let them wear it. Some do look better with good taste scarf, but still off is a whole lot better and much more normal. Most educate arab women don't always wear scarf. That most outstanding role model is Queen Rania of Jordan. The world is getting there and no boby wants to be stupid and ignorant. The one that do, needs some nukes. That is what they need.
ahah!ahah! extreme people need extreme treatment. What drove the japanee to fly their airplans and crash it or drop bumbs on those parking ships at Pearl Harbor? What make them do that? If you can figure that out, the extremist islamic is no different. See the Two World Trade Centers in New York and the Pantagon base in Washington DC. What did American do to get rid of that evil people? Nuked them that what they came up with. Until you nuke them and disable their bases and commanders or their people's spirit and mind than you can disable the real evil. Did the Japanee knows that the Anerican were tested the nuclear bumbs under the ground and in the nowhere zone of their Arizona's wilderness after they do that? No way! and not to wish bad thing for those extremist people, but hope the American one again treat their evil enermy with the way they deserve to treat. So that the rest of the people around the world can live in peace. American and the Japanee are friend now. You touch the Japanee, The American will be there. You can also bet that it is the same with Japan. if not the whole world have gone horribly horribly wrong.
Today, no one is allowing to use the nuke anymore, but that could change, if the circumstance is pushing it and it could be some thing very new and extremely effective. Who knows?????????
May Allah blesses PM Hun Sen forever!
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