Misunderstanding led to hijab row (Part 2)

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By strawberry_shisha

Source: http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/qatar/207931-misunderstanding-led-to-hi...

DOHA: The incident in which a girl student of a private school was denied entry to the classroom for wearing head scarf (hijab) has triggered a public outcry forcing the Supreme Education Council (SEC) to issue a clarification.

A senior SEC official, while speaking at a popular morning programme on Qatar Radio on Tuesday said that the incident had happened due to a misunderstanding by one of the school staff.

“The Supreme Education Council intervened in the issue and conducted an investigation. It was found that there was a misunderstanding by one of the school employees,” a local Arabic daily quoted Aysha Jassim Al Kuwari, director of Media and Communication at SEC as saying.

The SEC received a letter from a friend of the student’s father through its Twitter account.

“Immediately we contacted the man who wrote the letter seeking more information. Soon we intervened and asked the school to allow the student to attend the classes,” she added.

The official added that the SEC will take stern action against any school violating the rights of the students.

The Peninsula

*To read the part 1 of the news:*

http://www.qatarliving.com/node/4750946

By Jama galan• 17 Sep 2012 15:52
Jama galan

I feel pain, about what happening in the world muslim, some are faighting each other, some they behave like non muslim. Here is another story about hijab in a muslim country not in europe or america. How could a brivate school in qatar refused a muslim girl to enter her class? The answer is just her beautiful hijab, subxanallah. How could they dare? We should tell them this is a world muslim a real world, not a fake like western countries. They have to take our rules that from allah subxanuhu wa tacala, not the one they made them selves.

By anonymous• 17 Sep 2012 00:28
anonymous

If you want your daughter to have an English education...live with it!

When we put our children in schools in Doha we have to live with the 'rules'you put in.

You either allow Western innfluence or you don't.

By stealth• 13 Sep 2012 17:28
stealth

Irony.....

By aiwa6• 13 Sep 2012 16:09
aiwa6

Off with their heads?

And then I hope Alice wakes from this bizarre dream :/

By FathimaH• 13 Sep 2012 16:01
FathimaH

happen to log into QL now...the poor soul might run helter skelter to the air port, sans baggage!!

By anonymous• 13 Sep 2012 15:53
anonymous

Let their bloody souls burn in hell!

YEAH!!!

By fubar• 13 Sep 2012 14:33
fubar

KILL THEM ALL!!!

By anonymous• 13 Sep 2012 14:29
anonymous

We can punish them all without trial.

By Rizks• 13 Sep 2012 14:23
Rizks

ROFL you paan seller !

By britexpat• 13 Sep 2012 14:21
britexpat

The teacher and the Friend of the Father arrange to meet at Rizks Pani Puri and Papadom Palace to discuss the issues and share a cracked cup of hot Karak Chai..

The next day, there is a tweet that the waiter had purposely spilled a hot cup of Karak Chai on the teacher's lap and the CID were intervening ..

By Rizks• 13 Sep 2012 14:13
Rizks

eagerly waiting for "Part 3".....:)

By britexpat• 13 Sep 2012 14:12
britexpat

Here's a wheeeze of an idea.

They should set up a public website where the culprit can be named and shamed.

We can then use it for other cases in the future :O)

By anonymous• 13 Sep 2012 14:09
anonymous

"It is important that this man be identified, punished in the most appropriate way, and the bloody book of law be read to him, in the bitter letter."

My alarm just went off... nutcase detected!!!!!!!!

By t_coffee_or_me• 13 Sep 2012 13:51
t_coffee_or_me

Good Jew cannot be a Zionist likewise a Zionist cannot be a good Jew.

By Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte• 13 Sep 2012 13:30
Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte

LOL LP u disqualified him from QL

By anonymous• 13 Sep 2012 13:01
anonymous

Not necessary, Benson. You have disqualified yourself already in the thread about swimwear.

By stealth• 13 Sep 2012 12:59
stealth

What do you think LP? Are you redpope LP?

By anonymous• 13 Sep 2012 12:49
anonymous

Are you Benson, stealth?

By stealth• 13 Sep 2012 12:48
stealth

All Jews are not Zionists.

By anonymous• 13 Sep 2012 12:45
anonymous

Benson, where is your proof that Zionists are not Jews? Don't ask me a question, bring the proof!

By Bachus• 13 Sep 2012 12:33
Bachus

Monkey--If they did, then yes.

Don't Segmund, if my God recognizes your existence (if only as a means of provoking pity).

By Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte• 13 Sep 2012 12:32
Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte

such a shame then !

By Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte• 13 Sep 2012 12:24
Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte

bachus shldnt u be ashamed when ur armed forces go invade n kill innocent civilians

By Segmund• 13 Sep 2012 12:22
Segmund

I agree with you. Innocent until proven otherwise. But if found guilty, then he must receive the punishment he deserves.

By Segmund• 13 Sep 2012 12:21
Segmund

Even by my God, you do not exist, as far as I am concerned.

By dudboyseller• 13 Sep 2012 12:17
dudboyseller

INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY!

Plus, there should be a widespread knowledge sharing and such incidents should be avoided at all times.

Personal Opinion: Respect all religions...if nuns can wear head scarfs so can the muslims. Makes every one's life easier!!!

By Bachus• 13 Sep 2012 11:55
Bachus

Segmund--so what about the 7 million Muslims living in the US? Do you propose the hit themselves?

Being Muslim and American is not mutually exclusive, just as being Arab does not mean you are Muslim. Get some perspective.

By Bachus• 13 Sep 2012 11:54
Bachus

Given some of the stupid responses in yesterday's thread in which some idiots (including people on this thread) called for closing the school, deporting the teachers, violence, etc., these QLers should be ashamed of themselves. Another great example of how uncivilized, reactionary, and barbaric some people around here can be.

Thank God for the reasonable majority that is willing to wait to learn the facts before taking action and respond in proportion to the offense (if it is a misunderstanding, simply educate the person). And thank God that the reasonable majority prevailed in this case.

By Segmund• 13 Sep 2012 11:41
Segmund

I never said Americans and Muslims were enemies. I meant there was a possiblity that a third party could exist who could just try to let the Americans and Muslim countries get into a fight because of this film. There are no records of the guy with the same name as told by him, I mean the film maker.

So rather than hating a country for it, we should better get hold of that person and punish him regardless of where he is from.

In the same vein, we should make this sucker an example for other teachers.

By Captain_Lost• 13 Sep 2012 11:36
Captain_Lost

Oh and I'm not saying to punish him, its something i copy/pasted from sirlenfen's comment (Something sarcastic i believe)

By Captain_Lost• 13 Sep 2012 11:34
Captain_Lost

Here's what the report says:

"Reporting on this incident, the local Arabic daily Arrayah said the girl’s father tried to reason with the management but without any success."

oh come on, you call this a misunderstanding, really??

And they couldn't understand until the SEC got involved ??

By shaheka143• 13 Sep 2012 11:01
shaheka143

Hi Everyone

Its the Compass international School.

Source:

http://dohanews.co/post/31390200560/school-report-about-hijab-wearing-student-barred-from#axzz26EyctxOA

By Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte• 13 Sep 2012 10:41
Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte

i will read from the newspaper much better forums are not for copy pasting news articles everyday or ppl shld stop buying them

By anonymous• 13 Sep 2012 10:39
anonymous

if you read the article posted earlier that shows what a beatup the whole thing is. You will see that the misunderstandign was that the teacher in question simply asked whether it was usual for someone so young to wear a hijab. She was never banned from school, never chastised, in fact all of the other stuff seems to have been someone's fantasy.

Punish him.

By Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte• 13 Sep 2012 10:28
Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte

sumone wearing a hat forum will be copy and pasted and it will lead to jews and muslim bashing

By Captain_Lost• 13 Sep 2012 10:27
Captain_Lost

Just wondering what possible "misunderstanding" could that be???

maybe something like.. "Oh you were wearing a headscarf, we thought its a hat" ?? totally MISUNDERSTOOD

By Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte• 13 Sep 2012 10:25
Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte

dont answer him , he is looking for time pass

By Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte• 13 Sep 2012 10:24
Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte

irrelevant to topic LP and Benson both as well as OP for always posting muslim related topics which coz bashing, shld be given warning by mods

By anonymous• 13 Sep 2012 10:16
anonymous

benson, where is your proof that Zionists are NOT Jews!! Bring it up, NOW!

By kkforever young• 13 Sep 2012 09:04
kkforever young

so what ?

By Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte• 13 Sep 2012 08:49
Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte

i think this was an early hijack

By anonymous• 13 Sep 2012 08:49
anonymous

The American Muslims are the enemies of the Jews, not the American Jews, though. Or what?

By Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte• 13 Sep 2012 08:47
Baburao-Ganpatrao-Apte

yawnzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

By anonymous• 13 Sep 2012 08:22
anonymous

Yeah. Punish him. Clearly the story is a beat up but, nevertheless, someone must be punished. Punish punish punish.

First I've heard that Americans and moslems are enemies Segmund. What happens if someone happens to be an American AND a Muslim? I understand that there are nearly 2 million US Muslims, exactly who are they enemies of?

By Yasir_Kh• 13 Sep 2012 08:14
Yasir_Kh

Hmmm... I did not see this earlier: http://dohanews.co/post/31390200560/school-report-about-hijab-wearing-student-barred-from#axzz26EyctxOA

By Segmund• 13 Sep 2012 08:14
Segmund

I commented on this one yesterday as well.

Just for a perspective, let us take the example of the unfortunate incident in Libya where a United States diplomat and three other Americans were killed by a group of gunmen who stormed the US consulate--- apparently as a backlash of video film made by an anonymous person claiming to be Israeli-American.

The incident would now most likely spark further protestation accross the world causes uncalled for inconvenience for many innocent people. The person responsible would sit back in their chair watching all this in amusement. It is very possible that the man who made the blasphemous video (God's curse be on him forever) is not even American or Israeli in the first place. He might be a common enemy of both Americans and Muslims. Yet he managed to let loose the angers of his two enemies upon each other.

It is important to catch and take to task this person, not a whole world of innocent people. And it is important for Muslims as well as America to launch a witchhunt for this man, no less rigorous than that for OBL, to track him down, and give him a punishment which would teach him a lesson that he and the world would never forget. If he can get away with his crime, we should not be surprised his crime to be followed by crimes by other people but of a similar nature.

The very same thing applies in the headscarf row. I do not want to sound harsh or insensitive, but it is a fact of the matter that humankind has been made this way. We tend to learn from experience. If we witness this man come out of this row altogether unscathed, we should be sure that anybody else would could also easily want to commit a similar crime without any fear of retaliation.

It is important that this man be identified, punished in the most appropriate way, and the bloody book of law be read to him, in the bitter letter. It should become an example for the rest of the people that it is simply not ok to challenge the rights of others since there is no way you could get away with it.

By anonymous• 13 Sep 2012 08:12
anonymous

You are applying a sense of fairness, logic, and rationality to a debate in Qatar.

Bottom line:

Does he have a sponsor to be here?

If answer is "Yes" then:

If he is just stupid: punish him

If he is ignorant: punish him

If he was following instructions: punish him

If he was showing initiative: punish him

If he thought he was doing the right thing: Who cares? punish him.

If the answer is "no" then:

It must have been someone else who made the mistake.

By Yasir_Kh• 13 Sep 2012 08:08
Yasir_Kh

Because half news is no news!

Any person, in his/her right mind, would not just invent a school policy. I mean there must have been a new directive from management.

Everyone is blaming the teacher but teachers do not take decisions like this without approval/information of the management!

By anonymous• 13 Sep 2012 07:55
anonymous

Why would we want to understand why the teacher did it. He made a mistake, must be punished. Let's not mix up the concept of justice versus a good spectacle.

By Yasir_Kh• 13 Sep 2012 07:54
Yasir_Kh

anybody knows, which school we are talking about?

By Yasir_Kh• 13 Sep 2012 07:54
Yasir_Kh

I don't get it, what was the misunderstanding that led the teacher to stop the student?

By Segmund• 13 Sep 2012 07:52
Segmund

I do not see what is new in this part 2? We all know that the teacher did something wrong to stop the girl from entering the class just because she was wearing a scarf. Why do we need to lengthen this discussion. Just deal the guy the punishment he deserves and get onb with life.

By anonymous• 13 Sep 2012 07:48
anonymous

Let's punish severely those who make mistakes. Make sure that no one has the temerity to misunderstand anyone ever again.

Best to not take risks then mistakes can't happen. Always ask boss before doing anything, never ever take initiative, make sure can't be accountable for actions, if there is no process then do nothing. The golden rules.

By anonymous• 13 Sep 2012 07:36
anonymous

If it happens in the Muslim world, why do we blame non muslim countries for doing such a thing? how could it be a misunderstanding in Qatar?

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