COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY NEENA LALL IN THE
INDEPENDENT
I agree the hijab
should be banned for very young girls in primary schools – it's not
Islamophobic to say that
Neena Lall, the
headteacher of a school in East London, has been overruled after attempting to
ban the hijab for under-eights.
Stupid advocacy.
Religious garb of any kind should never be banned, unless it
has proved dangerous.
I live in a city with a good number of Muslims.
We see hijab on the street and in shops regularly, worn by women
and young girls.
It causes no problem. Indeed, it can be quite charming on
some young faces.
If you just think about it, it is not very different to the
scarves and babushkas many wore just a couple of generations ago.
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Response to a comment
stressing that the article was about children, not adults:
And do young ultra-Orthodox have any choice about their much
stranger appearance?
What people wear, as long as it is not dangerous, is not the
business of the state.
And it is most certainly not the business of people like
you.
Get a life.
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Response to a comment
saying “There seems to be a misunderstanding here. We are not 'banning' the
hijab. We are lifting the ban that has been put on muslim women by male, muslim
clerics’:
Oh, please, what a pathetic rationalization.
It almost resembles something you would read on extremist
sites or from the old USSR.
People's religious garb is none of your d---d business.
And you only invite hostility and promote prejudice with
your smokescreen rationalization for prejudice.
Children are guided by their parents in virtually all habits
and customs until they reach an age where they begin to make their own
decisions.
