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and as for the girls at minority muslim schools being the ones in MOST need...
...of having their religious freedom protected, I was referring to discrimination and bullying by teachers/students against kids of different faiths.
You have to protect kids' civil rights, that's for sure. But in and of itself, having your daughter wear a headscarf to school does NOT legally constitute child abuse. Parents still retain the right to dress their children as they see fit (provided they aren't sending them out in the freezing cold without proper coats or commonsense stuff like that).