Iran Offers Scholarship to European Muslim Victims of Dress Code, Hijab

December 11, 2009

TEHRAN (FNA)-

Marwa el-Sherbini

An Iranian university introduced a scholarship to support Muslim women who have been banned from studying in European universities for observing the Islamic Hijab.

The scholarship at Kashan University is named after Marwa el-Sherbini, an Egyptian woman who was killed in Germany in July for wearing a headscarf.

"Kashan University will award the scholarship to women who have been banned from studying in universities, especially in Europe, only for observing Hijab (Islamic dress code)," Seyyed Javad Sadatinejad, the Head of Kashan University told FNA on Wednesday.

The circumstances of the death of el-Sherbini, who was pregnant at the time of her murder, resulted in widespread reactions.

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