Posted on 03/30/2004 7:21:30 PM PST by coffeebreak
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Justice Department announced Tuesday the government's civil rights lawyers have jumped into a legal case to support a Muslim girl's right to wear a head scarf in a public school.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Alex Acosta said government lawyers would support 11-year-old Nashala Hearn, a sixth-grade student who has sued the Muskogee, Oklahoma, Public School District for ordering her to remove her head scarf, or hijab, because it violated the dress code of the Benjamin Franklin Science Academy, which she attended.
The girl continued to wear her hijab to school and was subsequently suspended twice for doing so. The family appealed the suspensions, which were upheld by a district administrative hearing committee.
Her parents filed suit against the Muskogee School District last October.
On Tuesday the federal government filed a motion in a federal court in Muskogee to intervene in support of Nashala's position.
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In a sense, but what I meant was, their primary concern was with Protestantism and Catholicism, and in that context their interpretation of "Mohametism" was in terms of 18th-century comparative religious theory, which subscribed to the theory that the ethical principles of Judeo-Christianity as summed up in the Ten Commandments and Golden Rule were expressions of natural law essentially similar to those of all other major religions. In extending protection to Mohametism they weren't conceiving of it as something radically at odds with Judeo-Christian ethics but as something falling under the paradigmatic umbrella represented by the Ten Commandments and Sermon on the Mount. This regards more of an Enlightenment interpretation of Islam than Islam per se in its own right.
It can't be repeated enough!
i understand that over in america muslims cant express their religion, however in Australia muslims are able to freely express their religion in public schools however any other religion is frowned upon,from a personal experience:my cousin bought me a cross for a pressie it was'nt anything to do with religion but the day i took into a school it was removed from me immediantly.so my question what are your thoughts on my comment if one religion is excepted aLL religion should be?
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