Burqas, Niqabs, or face-veils banned in schools by a German state.
The western German state of Baden-Wurttemberg banned full-face veils and burqas in school. The German state says these do not belong in a free society.
On Tuesday, the western state of Germany, Baden-Wurttemberg, banned full-face coverings, commonly called burqas or niqabs, in schools. The German state said that the full-face Islamic covering does not belong to a free society. Deutsche Welle reported that this new regulation comes at a time when the topic of Muslim face coverings is being hotly debated in Germany. The regulation in the German state follows a court ruling in Hamburg and ironically, the same court interfered and reversed Hamburg’s decision of banning the burqa.
The burqa does not belong to a free society says State Premier:
Admitting the instances of children wearing a burqa in school are rare, State Premier and prominent politician Winfried Kretschmann, stated the need to eradicate such rare instances. Kretschmann said for a free society it was necessary to procure a legal ruling to ban the full-face coverings in school. Kretschmann rubbished the idea of wearing full-face veiling measures and how it did not have a place in the new free society. He also said that burqa-ban at the university-level, was a more complex question, as the students are self-thinking adults. The legal ruling in Baden-Wurttemberg will only e applicable to primary and secondary education, for now.
Wearing a burqa infringes girls’ freedom rights say the Conservatives:
The pro-burqa ban brigade says that forcing girls to wear full-face veils infringes on their freedom rights. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) with prominent members of conservative parties have called for a nationwide full-face veil ban. At present, including Germany, many European countries like The Netherlands, Denmark, Austria, and France have banned the full-face veils.
