Leerlingen van de provinciale scholen in Oost-Vlaanderen mogen geen hoofddoek meer dragen op school. De Oost-Vlaamse provincieraad heeft het hoofddoekenverbod vanmiddag goedgekeurd, weliswaar met wisselmeerderheid met Vlaams Belang. Maar niet alle scholen zien dat zitten. "We vrezen dat meisjes met een hoofddoek nu voor thuisonderwijs gaan kiezen", klinkt het.
A piece of cloth is not a religious symbol
I agree. Head coverings in Islam are normally monotone and don’t have any obviously religious symbols unless it’s a hijab/niqab. So by my logic anyone can just claim it’s secular, so this can’t be forbidden
Maybe most white Western women don’t?
I am from the Global South. Some people are really negative about involving children in religion
actually felt more empowered precisely because they could control who gets to see what of themselves
Very good point. Yes, in this case covering your head is totally legit
In addition to literally stopping white people from randomly touching your hair just because “they’re so different!”
Omg, I never knew people can be that creepy. Ahh, the West…
Some people are really negative about involving children in religion
Yeah I fear that’s probably similar to what lawmakers are trying to harness with this law (OP then wrote that the law is actually specifically targeting hijabs and they wrote headscarf for the translation).
I personally think this could be a much longer conversation about clothing, racism, states’ policing and religion. For example, even European fashion used to have far more hats and head covering in it before it became associated with Islam and deemed as “scary/dangerous” in the West.
But because nowadays white Western European fashion has mostly moved away from that specific style, and also because Europe has become less religious, they slowly kind of collectively agreed that ‘covering your hair=bad’.
Pair this with their negative views of immigrants and Muslim people and you can see how some lawmakers are hiding behind things like “feminism” or “schools should be neutral” to target minorities and make them feel not welcomed in Europe.
Omg, I never knew people can be that creepy. Ahh, the West…
They can be far creepier than that unfortunately. And it falls again in that realm of “we don’t want you to feel at home here. You either conform to European whiteness or you’re already going against the law from when you are a child”
Your point is definitely convincing.
Yeah I fear that’s probably similar to what lawmakers are trying to harness with this law (OP then wrote that the law is actually specifically targeting hijabs and they wrote headscarf for the translation).
I personally think this could be a much longer conversation about clothing, racism, states’ policing and religion. For example, even European fashion used to have far more hats and head covering in it before it became associated with Islam and deemed as “scary/dangerous” in the West.
But because nowadays white Western European fashion has mostly moved away from that specific style, and also because Europe has become less religious, they slowly kind of collectively agreed that ‘covering your hair=bad’.
Pair this with their negative views of immigrants and Muslim people and you can see how some lawmakers are hiding behind things like “feminism” or “schools should be neutral” to target minorities and make them feel not welcomed in Europe.
They can be far creepier than that unfortunately. And it falls again in that realm of “we don’t want you to feel at home here. You either conform to European whiteness or you’re already going against the law from when you are a child”