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Tashamee Love 5/15/13 1st Mrs. Charity Women –The Disenfranchised in Nigeria Tension is building in Nigeria's largely Christian South over reports that Muslim women are being asked to take off their hijab or deny the right to register for the April presidential elections. The women are asked to remove their headscarf and she refuses to because it is against their religion. The Muslim Rights Concern said that it has received a flood of complaints from Muslim women being denied the right to register over their hijab. Sources say "Muslim women in the South are being asked to remove their hijab before they can take registration pictures. The women feel like they are going against their religious beliefs and they believe they are being discriminated against. The women who refuse to take off their headscarf are not allowed to registered those who remove the headscarf are able to register. The Muslim Rights Concern says this discriminatory practice contradicts having a democracy. Southern Nigeria is fast becoming another apartheid South Africa for Muslims. Muslim scholars are also furious at the disenfranchisement of Muslim women. Nigerians must be allowed to enjoy the dividends of democracy anywhere in the country. Democracy is a sham without equal right, equal access and equal participation. Nigerian women have turned back registration because they do not want to remove their headscarf. Sources say nobody has the right to deny someone to vote as long as they 18 and able to vote wear a headscarf has nothing to do with that law. Muslims are being stripped from their constitutional rights and that is no way okay in a democracy so to speak. A lot of women live in poverty in Nigeria a lot of women are abused by their husband a lot of the women there leave and are left a lot to suffer. A lot of women do not work on the labour force only the men the women aren’t allowed to work hardship labour only on the farm and house work. Some women work as weaver to make better money that they have been working and they use it for the kid schooling about taking care of other immediate family. By the women being independent making money double than average they are able to be on their own in charge of themselves instead of a man telling them what to do . Some Muslim law control the movement in the house and ability to work. I believe that women are strong , beautiful , smart , intellectual and should have a voice of their own for them to be controlled on everything they do is just out of line . first they are stripped by their right from the government then are restricted by their religion. They control everything what they think a women should look like or if they should work or not what work they do they when they speak or how they speak. The headscarf situation they should be able to vote no matter if they have it on or not because that is their right and the headscarf is a part of their religion and taking it off is going against their rights and nowhere in the law is there a law against their headscarf. I believe that the Nigerian women are treated very badly and it is no where I want to live in the future a the women must speak up so they can be heard and protest because the way they are being treated is not right whatsoever. Man should be able to control someone like that in a democracy or period women have rights and they need to speak up women shouldn’t be deprived of those rights. Women should be able to vote wear what they want to do what they want to everyone should be equal no one should tell one another what to do or what do wear or how to do something. This is a democracy everyone has constitutional rights and they should be honoured and respected women should be respected women are a big part of life so they matter and shouldn’t be treated like this. Writing this paper showed me that we take our rights for granted by breaking them and the time and not thinking about others work cited http://www.onislam.net/english/news/africa/450730-disenfranchising-nigeria-muslim-women.html http://books.google.com/books?id=yTzryhz3WLEC&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&dq=women+disenfranchisement+in+nigeria&source=bl&ots=bTlWH_r5Ga&sig=IdrOwjIQvkAxD3KtTZhnKQxT3Dw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pEyUUY2jDcyz0QHcjYGoCw&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBDgU#v=onepage&q=women%20disenfranchisement%20in%20nigeria&f=false