German constitutional court allows the heardscarves in public schools

[Dystopia]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/1...1V20150313

Muslim women teachers can wear headscarves as long as it does not cause disruption in school, Germany's top court said in a ruling that overturns an earlier ban and may fuel debate about what some nationalist groups see as creeping "Islamization".

The Constitutional Court struck down its own 2003 ban on headscarves for teachers, which had led some German states to forbid Muslim headscarves in schools while permitting the use of Christian symbols such as crucifixes and nuns' habits.

The court in Karlsruhe, ruling on a case brought by a Muslim woman blocked from a teaching job because of her headscarf, said religious symbols could only be banned when they posed "not just an abstract but a concrete risk of disruption in schools".

"This is a good day for religious freedom," said Volker Beck, a lawmaker from the opposition Greens.

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But the German Teachers' Association (DL) called the ruling "problematic", saying it undermined the principle of political and religious "neutrality" in schools and public services.

"We fear this ruling could lead to disruption in certain schools if, for example, non-Muslim parents do not agree with their children being taught by teachers in headscarves," said Josef Kraus, president of the teachers' body.

I don't really know what to think. I believe Christian symbols shouldn't be privileged over Muslim symbols and if we're going to ban one religion's symbol we should ban symbols from all religions.

I'm still not sure, I want people to have freedom to wear what they want, but I think using a veil in public school violates the principle of secularism, just like a crucifix nailed in the wall...

I also think using a veil (specially the burqa) causes issues with communication (facial expressions) and possibly endangers security because you have no idea who's teaching you.


Germans, what do you think of this?