Letters to the Editor
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there is definite anti-Muslim bullying in European schools as well
Just as there is anti-Semitism.
A ban on the hijab/yarmulke/turban etc. in schools is cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. Do you honestly think that forcing kids to take off their religious headgear is going to make them more open-minded? Or is it going to create even more of an "Us vs. Them" mentality among religious fundamentalists?
Let's say NO girl willingly chooses to wear the hijab because she in her heart believes it an essential part of her faith. Let's say they ALL are forced into it by their male relatives. If a girl comes from a family where her father or brother will murder her for taking off the headscarf, how likely is it that that father or brother is going to allow her to keep going to a school that forces her to remove it in the name of secularism?