Saudi Arabia cleric says women need not wear Abayas.
Two days after the teachers started wearing Abayas, former students protested.
Word spread on social media that the teachers had begun wearing Abayas.
In April,
other Muslim teachers at the school decided they would wear Abayas in solidarity.
Earlier this month, a senior Saudi cleric said Saudi
women should not be“forced to wear Abayas”.
The principal, who requested anonymity, said she banned Abayas because"the school was built for Hindus.
The Muslim teachers started wearing Abayas to impose their culture and convert the children to Islam," he says.
In June, a ministerial committee recommended that teachers be permitted to wear Abayas as long as their faces remain uncovered.
Although Saudi Arabia has no written legal code to accompany Sharia law, the judiciary and police have enforced a strict
dress code requiring women to wear Abayas and cover their hair and faces in public.