{"id":5342,"date":"2018-01-21T15:03:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T15:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5342-east-london-primary-school-backs-down-over-hijab-ban\/"},"modified":"2018-01-21T15:03:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T15:03:04","slug":"east-london-primary-school-backs-down-over-hijab-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5342-east-london-primary-school-backs-down-over-hijab-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"East London primary school backs down over hijab ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A primary school that controversially banned pupils from wearing hijabs appears to have backed down after the chair of governors announced his resignation following complaints from parents.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>A primary school that controversially banned pupils from wearing hijabs appears to have backed down after the chair of governors announced his resignation following complaints from parents.<\/h4>\n<h4>St Stephen\u2019s primary school in Newham, east London, hit the headlines at the weekend after the Sunday Times reported it had banned Muslim girls under the age of eight from wearing headscarves, to the delight of campaigners who argued it enforces religious conformity on children.<\/h4>\n<h4>That decision, along with curbs on children fasting on school days during Ramadan, upset many parents, who said they had not been consulted.<\/h4>\n<h4>On Friday, the school\u2019s chair of governors, Arif Qawi, said he was stepping down, telling colleagues in an email: \u201cI wish the school continued success and am truly sorry that my actions have caused any harm to the reputation of the fantastic school.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>Qawi\u2019s comments regarding \u201cIslamisation\u201d posted on social media attracted sustained criticism, while parents complained that they first heard about the ban through the media rather than the school.<\/h4>\n<h4>The website for St Stephen\u2019s posted a note on Friday, headlined as a uniform policy update,\u00a0 that read: \u201cHaving spoken to our school community we now have a deeper understanding of the matter and have decided to reverse our position with immediate effect.\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A primary school that controversially banned pupils from wearing hijabs appears to have backed down after the chair of governors announced his resignation following complaints from parents. \u00a0 A primary school that controversially banned pupils from wearing hijabs appears to have backed down after the chair of governors announced his resignation following complaints from parents. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[121,252,107,357],"class_list":["post-5342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-britain","tag-hijab","tag-london","tag-school"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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