Ban on Muslim Headscarves (France and Germany)

"Verily the disbelievers are to you an open enemy" [TMQ 4:101]

The courts of two so-called modern western tolerant liberal democratic countries, Germany and France, issue rulings blatantly discriminatory and hateful to Islam by refusing Muslims the right to wear the head scarf.

If they wore mini-skirts or skin tight pants or see-through blouses etc it would have been OK in a secular system but a head scarf as obliged by Islam is not acceptable! If they promoted homosexuality or promiscuity etc it would have been OK in a secular system but Islamic values are unacceptable! In short, if they were kuffar or submitted to kufr it would have been OK but being a Muslim or trying to follow Islam is not!

Is this not secular fundamentalism against Islam? But in a secular system, secular fundamentalism is approved and propagated; it is Islam that is hated! Muslims better wake up and realise that all kufr systems are against Islam, though some are more clever at hiding this and fool naive Muslims. Muslims will NEVER achieve their full rights under a kufr system fighting against Islam; rather their rights can only be truly achieved under an Islamic State. So why do we not work for the establishment of that State where Muslims can leave tranquilly under the only government which supports and protects them and establishes the noble Shari'ah?

German Court Backs Ban on Muslim Headscarves for Teachers

A German court on Tuesday upheld a ban in the southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg on Muslim teachers wearing a headscarf in the classroom. The states' administrative court rejected an appeal by the teacher, Fereshta Ludin, who had refused to remove her headscarf (hijab) in the classroom and was subsequently told by state education authorities that she could not work as a teacher in the state.

Ludin, a 29-year old Afghan-born German, had argued that the right to religious freedom protected her decision to wear a headscarf. The judges ruled, however, that teachers had a legal responsibility of "neutrality" and that duty took precedence over religious freedom. A spokeswoman for the Central Council of Muslims in the western city of Cologne slammed the judgment as a "career ban" for those who practiced Islam.

The court upheld a preliminary judgment by a lower court in favor of a restriction set by the school board in the state capital Stuttgart. "I feel reduced to this small piece of cloth," Ludin said in reaction to the ruling.

Ludin said that she had no intention of promoting Islam at work or proselytizing, but was simply practicing her own religion. Her lawyer, Hansjoerg Melchinger, indicated that his client might appeal the case to the Constitutional Court, Germany's highest court. In July 1998 the Baden-Württemberg education authorities decided that Ludin, one of the applicants for a primary school teacher's post, should not be appointed because, as a believing Muslim, she wanted to wear her religious scarf during school hours.

In a number of press articles attention was drawn to numerous objections raised by parents during the young lady's period as a teaching assistant. The Baden-Württemberg minister of education supported the decision as to non-appointment.

In a press release she argued that teaching while dressed with the scarf were inconsistent with the principle of religious neutrality, which were binding not only on the state, but also on teachers in their function as civil servants.

Muslim Woman Denied French ID Over Headscarf

A French court has rejected a Turkish Muslim woman's demand for a resident's permit on the grounds that she wore a headscarf for her identity photograph, judicial sources said Wednesday.In its ruling, the appeals court in the eastern city of Nancy, dismissed government legal advice that the woman should be allowed to wear a headscarf in her ID photo as long as it did not disguise her identity, reported the French news wire AFP.

The woman had applied to renew her French resident's permit in 1996 but the local administration in Montbeliard rejected the demand on the grounds that the ID photos she provided showed her wearing a scarf covering her head and neck and did therefore did not meet official regulations.

Muslims in France have been struggling for more rights and acknowledgement of Islam. French Muslims make up the single largest Muslim community in Europe. Their number is now estimated at around 6 million, or up to 10 percent of the total French population.

Muslims are second in size only to the Roman Catholic community. The Muslim labor force and Muslim businessmen constitute significant economic power in the country, about 60% of them hold French nationality. Statistics show that Islam is the fastest-growing religion in France; some 50,000 Frenchmen and women are said to be converting annually.

In spite of their size, Muslims complain that the French refuse to accept the Muslim presence, considering Islam an alien force which "should be eliminated."

French Muslim groups say that their communities are being overwhelmed by the "secularism" sweeping over all spheres of life in France, where it is increasingly difficult to live or bring up children as Muslims. Muslims in France, having been forced to accept that their daughters cannot wear hijab to school, were confronted last year with a new policy, which makes the abortion-pill freely available to teenage school-girls, "making illicit sexual activity routine and subverting parental authority."

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