The hijab, the traditional headscarf that many Islamic women wear and that has become a subject of heated debate in countries like France and the U.K. , where large Muslim populations live, has been banned - in Tunisia, a majority-Muslim country in northern Africa. Lately, Tunisian police have been enforcing, "with renewed vigor," a 1981 decree that "prohibits women from wearing Islamic headscarves in public places." The restriction requires that Tunisian women not wear Islamic dress in schools or government offices. "Police...have been stopping women on the streets and asking them to remove their headscarves and sign pledges that they will not go back to wearing them....Human-rights groups describe the move as unconstitutional.
