Posted on 12/19/2020 7:04:36 PM PST by marshmallow
CNA Staff, Dec 15, 2020 / 04:21 pm MT (CNA).- A ban on headscarves for elementary school students was discriminatory and unconstitutional because it singled out Muslim girls' headscarves, the Austrian Constitutional Court has ruled.
The court said the law banning headscarves for girls under 10 years old “contravened the principle of equality in relation to freedom of religion, belief and conscience.”
Drafters tried to keep the text of the law neutral, banning “ideologically or religiously influenced clothing which is associated with the covering of the head.”
Judge Christoph Grabenwarter, however, said additional material from the government made it clear that the law could only be understood as targeting Muslim head coverings. The law violated the principle of equality and the state's obligation to be religiously neutral because it singled out Muslim students.
Grabenwarter voiced concern of the ban's effects on students.
“It carries the risk of hindering Muslim girls' access to education and more precisely of shutting them off from society,” Grabenwarter said, according to the German news site Deutsche Welle.
Austria’s coalition government of the center-right People's Party and the far-right Freedom Party passed the measure in 2019, just days before the government collapsed amid a corruption scandal.
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And here, I thought just maybe the young president of Austria had a backbone. Like the rest of Europe, he folded like a cheap suit.
she caves.....
Yet another Merkel Jugend supporter pipes up.
Why is Australia even having to deal with this? My Dad wanted so badly to move to Australia.
You can’t even get IN to that country without an amazing amount of PROOF that you will NOT be a financial burden on their Government, and you need a boat-load of provable CASH ON HAND before they’ll even CONSIDER you for citizenship.
If they’ve decided to let muslims in, then they are letting themselves in for a world of hurt - unless these are home-grown conversions? And how is that possible?
This is AUSTRIA, a German speaking country in Central Europe.
The gd d#mn Germans got nothin' to do with it!
Well, this decision to ban or not to ban headscarves/coverings relating to religious practices in schools didn’t have to deal with Orthodox Jews wearing scarves and yamulkas (skull caps). They got rid of that potential problem in the late 30’s.
LOL! What a dope.
Too late last night and not enough coffee!
Thank you! ;)
“Oh. Never mind...”
It’s ok. It’s common for us “Amurcans” to get Austria and Australia and Sweden and Switzerland confused for some odd reason. 😂
I wonder how the Koala Bears in Austria feel about the head scarf ban reversal? ;)
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