US EditionEXPLAINED: Austria's new ban on headscarves for girls under 14 in schools
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Do many young Muslim women really voluntarily wear a headscarf? Thoughts about the planned ban on Austria's schools.
The headscarf ban is more than symbol politics - but dangerously easy to instrumentalize
Is Germany taking Austria as a model? In our neighbouring country, girls under 14 are banned from wearing headscarves in schools.
EXPLAINED: Austria's new ban on headscarves for girls under 14 in schools
Austria’s government has presented a new bill banning headscarves for girls under the age of 14 in both public and private schools. The move revives a politically charged debate, five years after the Constitutional Court overturned a similar measure.
A headscarf ban for schoolgirls like in Austria? Via Bild-Zeitung Hessen's Minister of Europe Pentz demanded a serious examination. His head of the cabinet and party friend Rhein was unusually slowing down the CDU politician.
The ban on headscarves for girls under 14 in schools announced by the Federal Government also provides for fierce discussions in Styria. While religious representatives see an incision in religious freedom, the Styrian state government is thus confirmed in its course. GRAZ/STEIERMARK. The Federal Government has agreed on a legislative proposal to prohibit the wearing of headscarves for girls under 14 years of age in schools. Parents are threaten…
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