A secondary school in the West German city of Bonn suspended two 18-year-old Muslim girls for wearing Hijab, the Islamic headscarf, an education official said on Friday.
The students, both immigrants of Turkish origin, were stopped from attending classes for the next two weeks after an order by principal, Ulrich Stahnke who acted in coordination with the Cologne-based district government.
An unnamed spokesman for the city of Bonn said that the school considered the two girls, who were handed initial suspensions of two weeks, to have disturbed the peaceful running of the school, arguing that the two students' choice of clothing had spurred disruptive debate in the school.
The official added that the two girls would be allowed to return to school if they took off their Hijab, Reuters reported.
Re: German Muslim students suspended for wearing Hijab
format_quote Originally Posted by sonz
A secondary school in the West German city of Bonn suspended two 18-year-old Muslim girls for wearing Hijab, the Islamic headscarf, an education official said on Friday.
Incorrect. The girls were suspended for wearing Burkhas, not Hijab.
The full story is HERE. It seems the girls have the support neither of the Muslim Council of Germany or most fellow muslim students, although there are clearly "freedom of religion" issues involved.
Re: German Muslim students suspended for wearing Hijab
format_quote Originally Posted by Trumble
Incorrect. The girls were suspended for wearing Burkhas, not Hijab.
The full story is HERE. It seems the girls have the support neither of the Muslim Council of Germany or most fellow muslim students, although there are clearly "freedom of religion" issues involved.
Hey thanks Tumble for the infromation, I followed the link u posted, its v intresting how fellow muslim students not just not supporting them but also openly showing their dissaproval.
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Re: German Muslim students suspended for wearing Hijab
A high school in the German city of Bonn has suspended two Muslim girls for wearing a burka, an all-enveloping cloak worn by women in central and south Asia.
For Gods Sake, What the.....do they want? :rant:
Can't they let us wear what we want! Its not like the girls have offended anyone!
Re: German Muslim students suspended for wearing Hijab
How are they disrupting?
Why annoyed? What is it to them?
Even though I completly disagree by wat happend to those 2 girls (May Allah help them), but to a point I can understand the kind of reaction they recived. I was in Malaysia for few years, n i was wearing Niqab. U cant imagin the kind of reaction I used to get, I mean these ppl were not used to see girls walkin around coverin their faces. PPl used to literaly stop n look at me with their jaws dropped, or they would point toward my direction as if I was some alien, even kids used to see me n run...that hurt me most, anyways, wen i used to get really irritated i would ask them "wat do u want?' "or can I help u" n if some times toooo irritated I just say "WHAT!". but then inside of me I felt that I should excuse them, they never ever seen some one dressing up like that infront of them.
So I think as muslims we need to increase awarness. Humans tend to get afraid orf things they r not familiar with. So its our responsiblity to infrom them n make them understand the whole thing.
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Re: German Muslim students suspended for wearing Hijab
format_quote Originally Posted by nurofislam
i hope you're kidding.
this was the case as recently as 3-4 years ago. it may have changed since, i don't know.
girls were not allowed to wear headscarves to school and women who had government jobs were also not allowed to wear headscarf.
turkey has made almost a religion out of secularism, starting at least with ataturk.
if i am wrong, i hope someone from turkey will set me straight.
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Re: German Muslim students suspended for wearing Hijab
format_quote Originally Posted by snakelegs
this was the case as recently as 3-4 years ago. it may have changed since, i don't know.
girls were not allowed to wear headscarves to school and women who had government jobs were also not allowed to wear headscarf.
turkey has made almost a religion out of secularism, starting at least with ataturk.
if i am wrong, i hope someone from turkey will set me straight.
I am not from Turkey, but wat u r sayin is right. it happned approximatly 3-4 yras back as u said. Lots of hijabi girls were given the choice of either stopping coming to Schools, univiersitis or either removing their headscarfs. I know almost 10 girls who were in their final year in the Univeristy in Turkey, but they refused n left the univerisy, later on left the country n came to Malaysia n u wont belive it started again from first year. Tough girls, Masha Allah.
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Re: German Muslim students suspended for wearing Hijab
format_quote Originally Posted by snakelegs
this was the case as recently as 3-4 years ago. it may have changed since, i don't know.
girls were not allowed to wear headscarves to school and women who had government jobs were also not allowed to wear headscarf.
turkey has made almost a religion out of secularism, starting at least with ataturk.
if i am wrong, i hope someone from turkey will set me straight.
This law still applies...I think it has something to do with Turkey wanting to join the EU.
Re: German Muslim students suspended for wearing Hijab
format_quote Originally Posted by Nicola
This law still applies...I think it has something to do with Turkey wanting to join the EU.
Only indirectly. Remember that most countries in the EU do not ban headscarves in public schools, so it wouldn't make sense that they would require Turkey to do so.
This ban on headscarves in Turkey has been in place since the 1930s if I am not mistaken. As such it has little do with Turkeys more recent attempts to join the EU. In fact, the EU's insistence on increased civil liberties does sometimes clash with Kemalist secular attitudes and laws.
However, I do agree that historically the ban on head scarves in Turkey is an attempt at Westernization and secularization. A process which eventually opened up the way for Turkey to eventually join the EU.
Re: German Muslim students suspended for wearing Hijab
format_quote Originally Posted by KAding
Only indirectly. Remember that most countries in the EU do not ban headscarves in public schools, so it wouldn't make sense that they would require Turkey to do so.
Re: German Muslim students suspended for wearing Hijab
format_quote Originally Posted by KAding
Only indirectly. Remember that most countries in the EU do not ban headscarves in public schools, so it wouldn't make sense that they would require Turkey to do so.
This ban on headscarves in Turkey has been in place since the 1930s if I am not mistaken. As such it has little do with Turkeys more recent attempts to join the EU. In fact, the EU's insistence on increased civil liberties does sometimes clash with Kemalist secular attitudes and laws.
However, I do agree that historically the ban on head scarves in Turkey is an attempt at Westernization and secularization. A process which eventually opened up the way for Turkey to eventually join the EU.
i agree.
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