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Europe
German state bans Muslim headscarf for teachers
2006-06-01
BERLIN - GermanyÂ’s most populous state, North-Rhine Westphalia, on Wednesday issued a ban on teachers in public schools wearing the Muslim headscarf. It is the eighth of the countryÂ’s 16 regional states to adopt the controversial measure. A law banning the Islamic headscarf was adopted by the regional parliament of the western state where the conservative Christian Democrats hold a majority. The Greens and the Social Democrats voted against it.
That's not a surprise.
The surprise'll come if there aren't any riots.
The Central Council of Muslims in Germany said the new law was unconstitutional because it does not treat all religions as equal, banning only the headscarf and not the Christian cross or any other religious symbols.
Ditto.
"Why's ever'body always pickin' on me?"
Germany, the home to the worldÂ’s biggest Turkish community outside Turkey, saw a heated debate about whether headscarves should be banned in schools in 2003 when such a law was proposed in France. The German constitutional court ruled at the time that it was up to each state to write its own laws on the matter.
Posted by:Steve White

#10  "words" not "worlds". Sigh.
Posted by: mrp   2006-06-01 19:10  

#9   GermanyÂ’s most populous state, North-Rhine Westphalia, on Wednesday issued a ban on teachers in public schools wearing the Muslim headscarf. (emphasis mine)

I bet the actual wording of the law doesn't mention the world "Muslim" or "Islamic" at all. It probably prohibits Christian and Jewish public school teachers from wearing headscarves, too.
Posted by: mrp   2006-06-01 19:09  

#8  I knew I was right all along. But some people have those rose colored glasses and will never take them off.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2006-06-01 14:56  

#7  
Muslims in Germany are Turks and Kurds who do islamic things wich in secular Turkey, and despite Erdogan, would be met with hefty fines and perhaps worse.


One of those things is wearing headscarves in a public building, still more if made by a civil servant. In a recent case a woman was charged with contempt of court and fined/jailed because she refused to remove her scarf while giving testimony. This happenned in Turkey, not in Germany.
Posted by: JFM   2006-06-01 10:49  

#6   I'll sympathize with these Muslims on the day of the dedication of a Catholic Cathedral in Riyadh.
Pope Benedict: if Muslim immigrants can claim the benefit of religious liberty in the West, then Christian minorities ought to get the same treatment in majority Muslim nations. .... if the Saudis can spend $65 million to build the largest mosque in Europe in Rome, in the shadows of the Vatican, then Christians ought to be able to build churches in Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: GK   2006-06-01 09:37  

#5   Most muslims in Germany are Turks or Kurds, relatively secular and not prone to Jihad.

It only takes 19 Saudis in a place like Hamburg to create a little trouble.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-06-01 09:34  

#4  Most muslims in Germany are Turks or Kurds, relatively secular and not prone to Jihad

Nope. most Muslims in Germany are Turks and Kurds who do islamic things wich in secular Turkey, and despite Erdogan, would be met with hefty fines and perhaps worse.
Posted by: JFM   2006-06-01 09:20  

#3  True of most, I agree. But the rest are university students, supported by German taxes while they study, who are actually Al Qaeda and related cadres, plotting their next terror attack between doing engineering problem sets.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-06-01 09:04  

#2  Most muslims in Germany are Turks or Kurds, relatively secular and not prone to Jihad.
Posted by: Jaiting Snomons2559   2006-06-01 06:24  

#1  Go farther Ban and all islamic "teaching" of minors claiming it as on a par with NAZI's teaching their brand of National Socalism.

That will really set their turbans to spinning down at the local mosk.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2006-06-01 05:12  

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