A teacher’s accidental WhatsApp message has sparked huge anger in the Russian Republic of Daghestan. On Wednesday, a group of parents in a common WhatsApp organization whose kids are college students at health club No 13 in Makhachkala received a message from one of the college’s instructors—a photograph of that year’s scholar survey. The scholar survey, which has instructors tune the number of students who wear a hijab, has angered Daghestani citizens and elicited vociferous denials from government officers.
The survey used to tune students’ socio-monetary conditions had the same old classes, which included the ‘number of college students with an incapacity’ and ‘range of kids from low-income families.’ Still, I’d also had a brand new category: ‘range of ladies carrying a hijab.’ One of the parents of a pupil in health club No. 13 informed OC Media that when these statistics became public, the instructor despatched a ‘corrected’ survey to the WhatsApp organization without the ‘number of women sporting a hijab’ category.
Mumsnet Murtazayeva, the director of gymnasium No. 13 in Makhachkala, instructed OC Media that a survey on this shape does not exist, and this was a pattern of 2016. A unique survey, used at faculty No 15 in Makhachkala and acquired with the aid of OC Media, also includes a query relating to the clothing worn by a baby’s parents and which simplest has widespread answers: ‘hijab’ and ‘normal.’
School trainer Patimat Abakarova advised OC Media that such surveys have been filled in regularly in view that 2016, and the class about college students sporting a hijab was delivered at the request of the police. These records, she stated, are the maximum possibly accrued for the Centre for Combatting Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Daghestan.
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Maryam Islamova, the mom of a scholar at a college in Makhachkala, advised OC Media that she believes that the hijab is so closely watched due to the fact it is spiritual apparel and that, according to regulation enforcement corporations, folks who put on spiritual apparel and live in step with the Islamic law are ‘probably dangerous humans.’ ‘A few years in the past, teachers were not allowed to put on the hijab, neither had been doctors in hospitals. Now evidently, this wave [of suppressing the hijab] has subsided; however, because it turns out, accounting is now underway, she stated.
In an Instagram post published on 10 October, the pinnacle of the schooling branch of Makhachkala, Vadim Debyayev, denied that there had been an accounting of the range of college students carrying hijabs. He wrote that he considers it ‘unacceptable, each in terms of student rights and ethical ethics’ and that ‘neither the Department of Education nor the academic businesses of the metropolis of Makhachkala keep information of college students sporting a hijab’. He wrote that the sole motive of yearly scholar surveys became ‘to save you overlook, homelessness, and juvenile delinquency.
Shamil Musayev, the determine of a scholar at school No 15, instructed OC Media that collecting facts on college students in hijabs and their mothers and fathers is much like the ‘preventive supervision listing’ of ‘extremists,’ on which one can also discover themselves without a doubt ‘if they own a beard.’ ‘We all realize what happens to folks who get into such lists. To confirm their extremism, fingers may be planted at them any time, or they will be accused of calling for extremism on the Internet or, as is now stylish, accused of financing a terrorist organization’, Musayev said.
Ibragim Malachilov, a Daghestani Road and Transport College student, instructed OC Media that the university’s guards no longer let students enter the campus if they have two days of stubble on their faces—they’re despatched back home to shave.
OC Media has received a copy of a letter dated thirteen September 2019 from Magomed Saypulayev, the pinnacle of the Center for Combatting Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Daghestan. In it, Saypulayev calls on the rector of the Daghestani Pedagogical University to tighten control over student attendance and to ‘pay attention to college students who ask for permission to depart on Friday.’
