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World news might be a bit out there but couldn't find a better place to post.
Basically the province of Eastern Flanders is implementing a ban that would see headscarves be illegal on schools. This will mostly target muslim girls as they are the ones wearing it of course. They will do it to encourage 'neutrality' and some people see it as a feminist act.
Now of course none of these wankers has actually talked to, you know, a muslim woman because they will soon find out that a lot of them actually want to wear headscarves. Or at least have the option to choose.
'We shall prevent policing how you dress by policing how you will dress! We are feminists!'
I used to be in favor of this myself until I actually met muslim women who were against it and their logic is sound: let women decide. Can't argue against that. Simple as.
I disagree. Most women don't want to wear headscarves, and a few people who do that willingly don't justify allowing religious symbols. People coming from strictly religious families find refuge in schools. And for them, school is an excuse to not wearing or performing religious clothing or rituals for at least 5 hours per day. Schools should definitely ban strictly all things non-secular
EDIT: now, I agree with OP
But that's not the point. The point is that under the guise of neutrality and feminism the choice of these women gets suppressed. I'm all for empowering women and especially teaching young girls at school that they have authority over their bodies and choices but this is not it. You don't do that by banning things but by educating.
This whole thing is distraction, creating problems that aren't there. In my countries some kids are unable to get, for example, math classes for months due to no teachers being available. School results are dramatically decreasing. The teachers that are there are overworked and are constantly attacked by the government. There are actual muslim women not allowed to work only because they want to be able to decide whether or not they wear a headscarve.
All this will do is pushing more muslim girls away from schools like this only to fall into the hands of even more conservative schools where headscarves are allowed. All the while the actual important stuff, like quality of education and teachers' rights, are plummeting. It's a distraction.
And there is no true neutrality in these schools. In a dominantly christian, capitalist and liberal country the education system is a direct result of these ideologies. I was spoonfed anticommunism, liberalism, capitalism, christianity and even white supremacy through this very same school system, despite it claiming to be 'neutral'.
Yes, the system overall is bad. I was also fed lib-propaganda. But a broken clock is right twice per day. Parents enforce how their kids dress outside of school, and school is the only place where children from religious families are free from at least the (non-secular) dress-code
Well I'm guessing we have to agree to disagree then, which is fine.