Posted on 03/02/2005 5:37:50 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Teenage Muslim Girl Wins Right to Wear Islamic Dress in Britain By VOA News 02 March 2005
Britain's Court of Appeal has ruled that a teenage Muslim girl's rights were violated when her high school refused to let her wear a full Islamic dress.
The court said Wednesday a clothing ban at Denbigh High School in Luton, north of London, violated Shabina Begum's right to religious freedom. The school sent Begum home in September 2002 after she showed up wearing a jilbab, a long gown that covers the entire body except for the hands and face. She has not returned to school since then.
The Court of Appeal ruling reversed a previous high court decision.
Before the controversy, Begun had been wearing a shalwar kameez to school that consists of trousers and a tunic. School rules allowed that.
I hope one of her non-Muslim classmates wears a clear plastic jilbab.
I guess she couldn't wait until October 31st.
I'd rather the girls around here wore Islamic dress than the slutty clothes they've got on. It's 35 degrees, you dopes: your belly buttons and bo*bs are blue, and you look fat, too.
I agree.
Islam is a monolith. You can put your fingers in your ear and say "la-la-la-la" all day and absolutely nothing can change that reality.
Unless you can pry the "religious" component of islam molecule by molecule from the political, military and cultural monolith.
Tribalism (islam is the largest tribal movement in history) is the curse of history and continues to fuel unimagineable mass murder around the world as we speak, and yet the clueless among civilized societies continue to celebrate "dress" as a noble expression of cultural tolerance rather than what it truly is: the open challenge to try and stop the tide of a billion savages...
Reading this crap day in and day out makes me sick.
What next? The right to kill Jews?
It's not a "right", it's a mandate.
Those awful rags are not religious, but a political symbol of rape and abuse. They should be outlawed in all public schools and government offices.
When can we stone her?
LOL!
I often wonder how that works. Are goose bumps sexy?
As a guy, I would like to confirm your statement about "fat".
Is that somehow rationalized away by all those kiddies between the ages of 8 and 60?
I don't understand. When I leave my house in a long jumper and head covering, I'm engaging in "cultural identity" (conservative Christian) and in defiance of a cultural milieu that encourages women and girls to display their bodies to the public. I don't see what's undesirable or intolerable about that.
If you just want to say that Islam is undesirable or intolerable, that's a defensible opinion.
In addition, I live in an area with Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite exist. I always find it refresshing to see them in their attire. While I do not wish to be like them. I do dress more modest and I wish that American people would put more clothes on.
Beats me. My mother would very kindly point out when my clothes were unflattering :-).
One FReeper used the image "expanding biscuit can" to describe how the unfortunate young ladies appear.
Up to 120 girls defy ban on head scarves-French school officials, Muslim students in talks
Baltimore Sun ^ | 9/09/04 | AP
Posted on 09/09/2004 4:09:22 AM EDT by kattracks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210813/posts
I meant exactly what I said.
I remember as a child the Irish, the Scots, the Greeks and the Italians would have celebrations of their culture which everyone of every culture could and did enjoy. Had they insisted on wearing the special outfits year-round it would have been bizarre and puzzling, rather than enjoyable.
When I posted those ideas, I specifically had in mind the mass rallies by the Nazis, and the rituals of the KKK, as an example of historical defiance. Unfortunately, I have not mastered posting images.
In the (up to now) model melting pot society (America), which used to be a good thing, diversity and cultural identity has a solid history of neutrality and celebratory value to everyone.
Islam is a creepy, threatening and defiant variant, in a killer-chihuahua sort of way.
Well... yes.
The Pillsbury Doughboy immediately came to mind.
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