City of Berlin Rescinds Ban on Headscarves for Teachers

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One year before the new Landtag elections in Berlin, CDU and SPD are taking on important legislative proposals. It is about topics such as training places, video surveillance, but also the neutrality law. Even the socialization of housing is discussed.

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When it comes to visible faith – cross, kippa, headscarf – it is easy to mobilize defensive reflexes in Germany. Freedom of religion is a human right.

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The Berlin city government has agreed to repeal a law banning female teachers from wearing Islamic headscarves at school. On June 22, the governing coalition of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) agreed to adjust the city’s “neutrality law.” It currently prohibited teachers in public schools from wearing “visible religious or ideological symbols … and visible clothing with a religious or ideol…

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Since two years de facto, soon also de jure: Berlin revises the neutrality law and allows teachers in the service the headscarf. Heavy criticism of the decision of CDU and SPD follows promptly. This post Islamization CDU and SPD allow headscarves for Berlin teachers was published on JUNGE FREIHEIT.