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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (2789)	9/24/2003 4:59:59 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) of 3959

Gus. Does Schroeder have a prayer mat yet? How about chirak. Muslim German teacher allowed to wear veil 25 September 2003 stuff.co.nz KARLSRUHE: Germany's highest court has ruled that a Muslim woman teacher has the right to wear a traditional headscarf in the classroom, settling an issue in Germany causing controversy throughout Europe. The Federal Constitutional Court ruled that Stuttgart school authorities were wrong to bar Afghan-born Fereshta Ludin from a teaching job. She had been barred on the grounds that her headscarf would violate the state's neutrality on religion. The ruling opened the way for Muslim women teachers across Germany to cover their heads while at school unless the country's federal states have laws expressly forbidding religious symbols in the classroom. The hijab, as it is called in Arabic, has offended teachers, bureaucrats and modern-minded women in Europe for more than a decade. The September 11 attacks in the United States heightened fears the veil could cover a head full of radical thoughts. Ludin had been banned from taking up a post in 1998 to teach English and German in primary and secondary schools. She had appealed to the constitutional court after lower courts had all ruled in favour of the regional government in the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Ludin's case was the second the constitutional court has handled in as many months. In August, it ruled that Muslim shop assistants could not be fired for wearing a headscarf, despite managers' complaints that they put off customers. In France, a state commission is debating whether Paris should forbid Muslim girls from wearing a scarf to class. Not all Europeans have such troubles. The British, for example, generally shrug at the headscarves in their Muslim neighbourhoods as just another part of a multicultural society.

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