Kenya Judge Rejects Push By Christian Sect To Wear Headscarfs In School

According to today's Kenya Times, a judge in the High Court in Kenya has rejected the claim of students from a Christian sect known as the Arata A. Roho Mutheru Society that they were unconstitutionally expelled from school for wearing headscarves. (See prior posting.) Justice Joseph Nyamu held that the students had not produced proof they were expelled, that they did not show that wearing a headscarf was in fact required by their religion, and that at any rate the requirement in the Education Act that school students wear uniforms does not clash with the Constitutional principle of equality.