If you’re against governments forcing women to wear burqas or hijabs then you should be against governments banning women from wearing them too

I’m sure most of you know about France’s burqa ban, but did you know that they passed a bill to ban girls under 18 from wearing hijabs in public?

Just as I’m against religious authoritarianism, I can’t stand this breed of enforced secularism. Do I like hijabs/burqas/niqabs? No, which is why I’ll never wear one, but do I think other women should be banned from expressing their Muslim faith by wearing one? Hell no!

I also take issue with the fact that ALL religious symbols are banned in schools, you can’t even wear your favorite cross or Star of David necklace. And yarmulkes are out of the question. How can you be for separation of church and state and yet stifle people’s freedom of religious expression?

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HootyTheNightOwl

Oh... lovely... how far do we extend this???

Let's start by taking God out of American and British schools entirely. Children with no faith at all deserve the right to an education without having God shoved into their ears every morning for the first sixteen years of their lives.

We'll scrap the Christmas nativity, too... its not inclusive of all faiths and no faith at all.

Do away with the Christmas Tree and Christmas parties every year - it wastes precious time that could be spent educating children... and they're too young to decide for themselves if they really want to be a part of all this anyway.

SW-User

@HootyTheNightOwl yeah getting a Christmas present is exactly the same as being forced to cover your hair in primary school so you aren't
'immodest'

Glad to see you're a deep thinker

HootyTheNightOwl

@SW-User The post is about having the freedom to choose, right???

Then, explain to me why a child should be sent home from school and her parents fined for breaking the "school uniform policy" - because she wants to be modest and wear an ankle length skirt to school.

Am I the only one on this planet that can see that forcing these children to abide by western standards without taking into consideration what they want or how they might feel is just as preposterous as what I suggested in my first answer???

At least, wake up, smell the coffee and see that not every choice is made in the direction that we in the West think it should be. Sometimes, these children actually want to be modest in accordance with their faith.

Children are having their education disrupted in the UK because school uniform policies dictate the precise length that a girl's skirt should be. Why is that??? Is her ability to learn negatively impacted by the fact that she is wearing an ankle length skirt as opposed to one that ends four inches above the knee???

No, her ability to learn isn't affected by the clothes that she chooses to wear - so, why not give children some freedom to choose exactly what length skirt she wants to wear as long as it is in a style that blends in with other skirts that fit in with the school uniform policy???

SW-User

@HootyTheNightOwl Yeah right. The children choose... *eyeroll*