[Alouette]

To ban girls in hijab from education is an affront to Islam, Muslims and their beliefs.

Is that even worse than girls without hijab attempting to escape from a burning building?

[Alouette]

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[SJackson]

is the Muslim dress the only one considered criminal in Western society?

And here I thought the biggest dress problem was inappropriate t-shirts

And if they're improperly dressed, what can you expect the fireimans to do other than leave them in there.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Is that even worse than girls without hijab attempting to escape from a burning building?"

Muslims are even bigger hypocrites than Democrats.

[jimbokun]

I'm just curious, is there even a grain of truth to what this person is saying about a girl not being allowed to wear a hijab, or was it just invented from whole cloth?

[TexasCowboy]

"Is an individual's apparel a personal matter related to his personal freedom? Or is the Muslim dress the only one considered criminal in Western society?"

I would say the latter.
It was people in Muslim dress that killed over three thousand of our fellow Americans, and it's people in Muslim dress that slaughter innocent Israelis every day.

Besides, that hijab is ugly as hell!

[Travis McGee]

Atomic Barf!

[Toskrin]

And how many Christian churches are there in Saudi Arabia? And what is happens to a Christian who so much as sets foot in Mecca? Or a Muslim who dares convert to Christianity?

Look in the mirror first, Hassan. Any small breach of religious freedom that might occur in the USA is only one millionth of those that occur daily in any Muslim country.

[muawiyah]

Just to humor these guys let's keep the debate within our own frame of reference.

They seem to want to use the hijab as a point of order. I suggest that it's more appropriate to use Spandex as a point of order.

Do you see fat women at the beach in UAE or Kuwait wearing Spandex?

Hmmmm? Do you?

Well, there!

Case closed.

[Zeppo]

The democratic model in the West is based on a principal pillar - freedom.

. . . and that anything that could possibly create divisions between the citizens of a country should be avoided

Notice how he sneaked in that "anything that could possibly create divisions" part? That does not sound anything like the Western ideal of freedom to me...

[the_greatest_country_ever]

First of all, the article (or more appropriately the Koranic version of what can only be described as the 'stuff that hits the proverbial fan') has several mistakes in grammar/spelling.
(In the opening paragraph it uses the word principal, as in school principal when it should have used principle defined as a philosophy or truism, as in in the Muslim world there are no principles of tolerance to speak of.

Muslims are tolerant because they believe in the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Muhammad (peace be upon them) -- therefore they respect Christianity and believe in its teachings.

Muslims are tolerant of Christianity ??#@!!!!???!!!**#!!??!!!

You don't say??
Is that the reason why you can receive a death sentence for trying to convert Muslims to Christianity??

Notice the author could not steel himself to include Judaism as something Islam tolerates because that's a lie that even the Arab News couldn't bring themselves to print.

Finally, to call the US a fake democracy is nowhere as absurd and bizarre an oxymoron as referring to Islam as being (sic) tolerant.
The only thing this piece has to offer is to dramatically illustrate just how far out of touch and primitive these people really are.

[monkeyshine]

Muslim student was forbidden to attend the Franklin Science Academy because of her insistence on wearing the hijab

It's not wise to wear a hijab while working with a bunson burner.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

One case in Oklahoma is all they could come up with? Combined w/ the case of the woman wanting to cover her face on her driver's license, these are exceptions to the rule. Not to mention that the complicated questions of local control, federalism, privacy, etc. don't seem to be addressed. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Dan from Michigan]

Consequently the question is: Is an individual's apparel a personal matter related to his personal freedom? Or is the Muslim dress the only one considered criminal in Western society?

Is it illegal to be a Muslim in the US? No. Is it illegal to be a Christian in most Middle Eastern Countries? Yes, so shut the hell up.

Muslims are tolerant because they believe in the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Muhammad (peace be upon them) -- therefore they respect Christianity and believe in its teachings.

ROFL. Tell that to the Christians in Sudan and Nigeria, among other places.

[Brian Allen]

<< Muslims are tolerant because they believe in the ... prophet Moses and the death-and-destruction, moon-"god" and big rock worshipping false fuerher and pirate-pedophile, MuhumMAD [Piss on him] -- and, except that they deny Jesus Christ, the only begotten son of God the Father, Almighty, "therefore they respect Christianity and believe in its teachings." >>

And Hell has frozen over and all the pigs have flown.

Straight to the dead islamofascists' rapists' brothel.