The Gambian government has banned its female employees from showing their hair at work and ordered them to wear headscarves, commonly referred to as “hijab” in Islam. The new rule was announced Monday in a memo circulated to all ministries and departments and later obtained by private newspapers and news agencies, one month after President Yahya…

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O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). Verily the most honoured of you in the sight of God is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And God has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things). ~ Quran 49:13

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