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South Africa's military has changed its dress policy to allow Muslim women to wear hijabs with their uniforms.

It is a victory for Maj Fatima Isaacs, who led a three-year legal battle for her religious right to wear a headscarf beneath her military beret.

The change of heart comes after the military dropped charges against Maj Isaacs for wearing one.

She had faced dismissal for "wilful defiance and disobeying a lawful command" for refusing to remove it.

Maj Isaacs, who works as a clinical forensic pathologist at a military hospital, told the Cape Times it was a victory not only for her, but all people who were "silently victimised" because of their religion.

"We are living in a democratic country which means that there should be no discrimination with regards to religious beliefs. I believe religion is the foundation of a moral state/country. This is an important victory," she told the paper .

She also thanked the Legal Resource Centre (LRC), a rights group which took up her case in 2019.

After military charges were dropped last year, it was agreed that Maj Isaacs could wear a headscarf that was tight, did not cover her ears and which was plain in colour - though the dress code did not officially change.

So the LRC filed an application at the Equality Court, arguing that the religious dress code of the South African Defence Force (SANDF) was unconstitutional.

However, subsequent discussions had resulted in the defence force "amending its religious dress policy to allow Muslim women to wear their hijab with their military uniform", the LRC tweeted .

"We will therefore not be pursuing this matter further as the current SANDF policy no longer discriminates against Muslim women in the military."

After the end of white-minority rule in South Africa in 1994, the country drew up and adopted one of the most liberal constitutions in the world.

all these for a religion of force,killings,paedophilia
I weep

theFilmtricsay

BRATISLAVA:
Little by little they will creep in, day by day they will begin to impose their rights over that of others. Soon enough, they will want to wear it everywhere, though they gave been living without doing so. Then suddenly one day, they will do what they have been known for worldwide.

And the people who usually fight to wear the hijabs are always converts. Nobody in Iran wants to wear it, but someone in South Africa is fighting to. It's cold in winter, but not enough to impose the hijab.

theFilmtricsay

Queenlovely:
Since that day ecowas headquarters was bombed in Abuja, I gave a decree against hijab in my business premises.

I don't want that smelly thing around me or my premises.

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