I know of many female muslim lawyers and judges who wear a small fitting round black scarf that covers their hair only but does not cover their two ears before putting the wig atop.
Info is that the lady was advised to wear the smaller scarf like others whose neck were covered already by the collaret. Even a female serving judge appealed to her to do like others but she refused.
The hijab is a cultural and not a religious wear. I know of Arab Christian women who wear hijab to church because it is one of the Arabian cultural dresses for women.
She has a right to exclude herself from being called to bar by her non compliance with the rules on dressing as prescribed by the body of benchers. I support her exercise of right based on conviction. Life goes on.
Considering that the dressing instruction has been there long before the call to bar, reason dictates she should have challenged it in court well ahead of time instead of waiting for the last minute to show off her religious zeal sensationally and sacrifice the years of investment on her education. I think she simply committed PROFESSIONAL SUICIDE brand of religious fundamentalism.
Maybe Allah will be pleased with her. Only Allah can decide not the Imam or Islamic scholar or me.
ON a lighter mood, I wander if “CALL TO THE BAR” is “Christianic” or Islamic or just professional. Both religion ought to oppose anything related to “the bar” where lawyers must dine and drink by force!!! There is no fundamental right to become a lawyer.
Case closed.
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