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Pastimes : History's effect on Religion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (52)	5/7/2003 10:35:55 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 520

This was your statement: I think a couple of years back the government could send you to jail for wearing headscarves [in Turkey]. I guess you see the difference between that and this: didn't Turkey put limitations on wearing Hijab to schools and government offices? What you are referring to is that Turkey (still) forbids religious clothing (or behaviour) in government functions. That includes schools, and is a product of the country's paranoid-schizophrenic additude re religion/secularism. So, to this day, women cannot even wear scarves to schools, or serve in government functions with them. Hijab (hiding all except hands, feet, and face) is completely out of the question. But no, if a woman insists on wearing scarves to, say, schools, they are not "jailed". They just are not allowed in or are escorted out.