'Your schoolgirls' haircut policy is haram' - Islamic scholar tells education minister

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  • PATIENCE IN THE FACE OF PROVOCATION 9 months ago

    Who is this one too. Where in the Quran is this stated. Fake Scholars

  • PATIENCE IN THE FACE OF PROVOCATION 9 months ago

    Restrain from retaliation:
    The Quran teaches that responding to abuse with more abuse is unproductive. Instead, one should control their anger and avoid engaging in fruitless arguments.

    Practice graceful withdrawal:
    A "b ...
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  • IT IS A SHAME THAT PEOPLE LIKE THESE ARE OFFERED PLATFORM TO SHOW THEIR IGNORANCE 9 months ago

    Every institution has its own bye-laws and must people belonging to that institution have to abide by them.

    The context in which the Minister is speaking is to ensure discipline. If everyone is allowed to dress any how, yo ...
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  • Karikakchar 9 months ago

    Let's get serious for once! There's a code of conduct for senior high schools which I believe was established with valid reasons based on experience and outcomes from various scenarios. We should respect these and stop all th ...
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  • JULOR CAESAR 9 months ago

    No one is advocating for the students to dress any how as you stated in your comment. The issue has to do with hair cuts and not dress code. What makes Ghana schools any better than schools in Western countries that many of o ...
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  • ST Ghfuo: CANADIANS ARE BIASED, DISHONEST 9 months ago

    if achimota had allowed the rasta kid to represent the school during the nmsq with his dreads im sure achimota would have won the contest in those years the kid was there but because of stupidity by the leadership of that sch ...
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  • Karikakchar 9 months ago

    Are you serious? Get your facts right before insulting!

  • Aboa 9 months ago

    The achimota case was very wrong. That guy should have been sacked from the school. If you cannot abide by the rules and laws of an institution or grouping, you don't associate with them.

  • hmm 9 months ago

    total absurb why they don't let them to brand corn roll after shs they do grow their hair. And later they will be buying Brazilian hairs from China cosing financial loss to the state. who at all brought this policy for this b ...
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  • hmm 9 months ago

    total absurb why they don't let them to brand corn roll after shs they do grow their hair. And later they will be buying Brazilian hairs from China cosing financial loss to the state. who at all brought this policy for this b ...
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  • ST Ghfuo: CANADIANS ARE BIASED, DISHONEST 9 months ago

    those with clean cut shaved heads what progressive ideas have they contributed to shaping the growth of ghana? the rasta kid from achimota whom those clean cut foolish leaders tried to deny and frustrate is now in america wit ...
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  • Edem 9 months ago

    All my Ghanaian female friends in the UK who attended shs in Ghana refuse to showcase their photos and pictures of their time in school. You can't really tell if they are males or females

  • Kojo 9 months ago

    Don't worry!!! What has school uniform got to do with education? Then we move to what has wearing clothes got to do with education? That's where we may end up.

  • kingsley 9 months ago

    Trimming the hair is haram, but covering it is okey. Drinking is haram, but smoking weed or doing hard drugs is okey. Stealing, armed robbery, landguard and hired killer are okey. What a bunch of fools.

  • Aboa 9 months ago

    Sometimes l looked at our Muslim brothers and laugh. Their prophet Muhammad slept with her uncle's wife, sleep with underaged girls but they don't see those things as haram. He duped the leaders of Jerusalem yet that wasn't h ...
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  • ST Ghfuo: CANADIANS ARE BIASED, DISHONEST 9 months ago

    look at this primitive human being. no experience as an educator, does not have a masters or even phd in education. has never taught in a school in a foreign, progressive nation before to understand the issues. you bring this ...
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  • Empty headed Phd holder 9 months ago

    And you that you are an emeritus professor, please tell us exactly how cutting hair affects schooling? Truth be told, to be poor is a terrible thing. These draconian laws affect only the impoverished. Have you seen schools l ...
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  • Tkk 9 months ago

    no wonder ghana is a shithole debating about shaving hair,we can't manage the resources God has given us,always borrowing from left right center to buy v8, are blacks also human at all??

  • ST Ghfuo: CANADIANS ARE BIASED, DISHONEST 9 months ago

    im giving haruna iddrisu homework. go to canada, america and britain. go to 6 schools in each country. speak to the school boards in these nations and find out how they deal with this hair issue and you will realise that your ...
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  • Kwame Acheampong CTX 9 months ago

    The indiscipline in those countries is so high that the have exported that crap via movies and social media to Africa. BTW, my wife was a teacher in a US middle school. She gave up after Three years and returned to the corpor ...
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  • Odikro 9 months ago

    And the indiscipline is due to them keeping their hair? Wow

  • NADAA2 9 months ago

    LIAR! LIAR!LIAR! LIAR!LIAR! LIAR!LIAR! LIAR!LIAR! LIAR!LIAR! LIAR!

    In America schools, kids mass-shoot kids....and violence is currency...wae. Some schools in New York even have METAL DETECTORS like the airports!

    NKONTO ...
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  • Kankabi 9 months ago

    In as much as we keep comparing ourselves to the whites or the western countries in most of the things, have we considered the context here? We are all aware that the whites naturally have long hair due to their environment/w ...
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  • Kj 9 months ago

    Don't forget that these people from these countries have natural long hairs so your point is dead on arrival

  • ST Ghfuo: CANADIANS ARE BIASED, DISHONEST 9 months ago

    the only reason these teachers dont want girls especially to hair certain hairstyles is this. when these girls have such wild hairstyles they tend to look mature and beautiful and likely to attract the teachers. therefore, if ...
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  • ATTA 9 months ago

    What does haruna know about Holy Quran? He only bares a Muslim name.

  • Shithole 9 months ago

    Wei wei

  • Kwam 9 months ago

    I seriously don't know why we are crying over this directive. Some of us went to secondary school for seven @7yrs in a missed school for boys and girls, even that time we the boys had nice hair cut, the girls had simple hair ...
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  • ST Ghfuo: CANADIANS ARE BIASED, DISHONEST 9 months ago

    kwam, in your day there were no computers, no cellphnes, no tablets, no online teaching modules either...if you can tell/convince me how hairstyles make school kids unproductive and indisciplined, then i will encourage the cu ...
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  • ST Ghfuo: CANADIANS ARE BIASED, DISHONEST 9 months ago

    zongo face with masallachi ideas. very soon this zongo boy will decree everyone must learn arabic in school. eat muslim food in boarding as school feeding without monetary significance...this guy should be working with zoomli ...
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  • Prudhomme - Ghanaians - Phucking Idrisu Mahama 9 months ago

    This stupid looking Idrisu Mahama wants Ghanaian girls to look as ugly as he is. Mother4ucker is stuck in the 19th century!

  • Kafui 9 months ago

    That's the rules and regulations of GES. If you are not okay with that, send your kids to where you think you can, simple....

  • 54321 9 months ago

    but this man paa, has he been living under a hole all this while?
    why the pretence or is he seeking prominence?

  • Populist 9 months ago

    Which haram. Shut up . Hypocrite

  • Koppong 9 months ago

    Corrupt system

  • KGB 9 months ago

    It's true that every institutions have their bylaws but there is no bylaws that supersedes individual human rights to education. Uniformity is not quality. When politians send their children overseas for education, they so n ...
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  • PLO 9 months ago

    So are you suggesting that there shouldn't be rules to check appearance? Then why not advocate that SHS students should wear uniform? Every institution has its rules and regulations and so parents who don't subscribe to the M ...
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  • Kweku Benn 9 months ago

    It’s all nonsense that these ministers will follow and make incessant headline news..you guys don’t want to grow why??

    Where in the world you require girls hair to be cut in schools. Why these bush attitude behaviors a ...
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  • Kwame Angel 9 months ago

    Foolish argument. The Minister is not asking girls to remove their hair. Keep it low, keep it decent and focus on your books. To hell with your freedom of whatever in the constitution.

  • Holy Sinner 9 months ago

    WHAT HAS HARAM GOT TO DO WITH OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM. Stay away from our education system. We need no boko haram skirmishes in Ghana. Stop the NONSENSE and let the education minister do his job. Schools are governed by rules an ...
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  • May 9 months ago

    Scholars? Ignorance.

  • Bobo 9 months ago

    What's the noise about this directive? My daughter who's so hairy and leaves her hair to grow in unimaginable proportion even trims it when school reopens and when I ask her why she tells me to have time for her books. And th ...
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  • USUS 9 months ago

    Edu Minister, exclude your muslim girls to go around with their stinky hijjab covered heads. No problem here.

  • Var capitata 9 months ago

    This is not Afghanistan, Iraq or Iran. So this Hadith things can't occur here.
    Simple!

  • Kweku Gymfi 9 months ago

    Yes power has started getting into their heads. A minister of education ought to be far better than this. Let's watch it.

  • Koppong 9 months ago

    Mahama and Haruna and co have no exposure
    They only see what’s in Ghana
    These guys would send us into the ditch
    Vote them out

  • Kojois 9 months ago

    That is what you voted for. Reset agenda fools.

  • Npp 9 months ago

    How old is this guy toy

  • Don 9 months ago

    Completing school with good grades and with bad character is worthless. I know brilliant students who are today on drugs due to uncontrolled behavior back at school

  • don 9 months ago

    very serious,,a certain Achimota rasta guy,,,,so soon

  • My point 9 months ago

    Religious groups are part of Ghanas problems .if it's alone can correct people why do we have criminals in our country where everyone is either a Christians or a Muslim.

  • Kj 9 months ago

    Masa, what are you talking about? If that's your argument then girls from SDA, Deeper Life, other rastafarians should be allowed to go to school with their scarves, less I forget traditional worshipers. Are you the only peopl ...
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  • Obiba JK. 9 months ago

    Stop your nonsense Mallam we are not in mecca we are Ghanaian and a sovereign nation.

  • Ernest Deh 9 months ago

    The Honorable Minister spoke within the context of supporting the Heads and Leadership of the public schools to confidently exercise their authority in such cases.
    CONSIDERATIONS ON HEALTH AND RELIGIOUS BASIS HAVE ALWAYS BEE ...
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  • JULOR CAESAR 9 months ago

    Nothing but a Taliban and Boko Haram intrusion in the rights of students regarding their hair. Dress code for students makes sense, but the imposition of hair length on students makes no sense.

  • Aboa 9 months ago

    Do we have code of conducts and code of dressing for schools? If care is not taken, students will start dressing in scatter jeans and lingerie and transparent dress to class and be demanding their right to dress in schools. W ...
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  • JACK TORONTO 9 months ago

    When was the policy implemented? This has been there for years, so why are you guys now complaining?

  • Donatus 9 months ago

    Corruption and stealing are my concern of indiscipline. We are not a disciplined society.

  • Tolon 9 months ago

    Haruna is not a good Muslim because he only prays occasional prayers(Big prayers) like Eid

  • Moses 9 months ago

    It's not the ministers policy, it has been the norm since since or are u now coming to ghana

  • Samurai 9 months ago

    Of all the problems plaguing the education system, this is the priority??? smh

  • Jibril 9 months ago

    Haruna Iddrissu is only diverting attention from his monumental failure at ensuring corruption-free placement of students under the CSSP system. Under him parents are paying huge sums of money to place their unqualified stude ...
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  • Reason 9 months ago

    He needs to speak out against a Catholic University in Damongo as well.

  • T.J Newtown 9 months ago

    Stupid non entity mallam