Faith schools

[taper]

damn damn straight. Secularism is something we all need to abide by.

[Jah Lush]

Down with this sort of thing.

British schools where girls must wear the Islamic veil

[Ridgley]

As long as it is a choice, Jah Lush if not I agree with you.

[Jah Lush]

It isn't.

[mockney piers]

To be fair, if it is school policy is it so very wrong?

My parents chose to send me to a school with a fairly lax school uniform policy. More disciplinarian mums and dads sent their kids to the ersatz grammar school on the other side of town where a skewed school tie would have resulted in detention.

Not sure I see the difference, especially as these are private schools. It seems they've only been criticised from a desire by muslim community leaders not to seem to be offending the nonmuslim locals, which says more about them than it does about the school's policy surely.

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[Huguenot]

Well you can see it might be a problem if the parents didn't have choice in which school their kids have to attend.

In this case though, they seem to be private schools?

[mockney piers]

editing cross post

[taper]

You don't see the difference between being required to wear the veil and being forced to wear a school tie?

[mockney piers]

Nope.

We didnt have school ties, and thought the schools that did were anachronistic petit borgeouis institutions.

But the parents obviously didn't see it that way.

I may think similar thoughts about the veil, but these kids parents don't see it that way or they wouldn't be paying to send them there.

Unless you meant literally, in which case I suppose it depends on the width and length of the tie.

[SeanMacGabhann]

At my school I was taught by women who wore hair covering veils

Of course, i didn't like them any more than people doing it now

[david_carnell]

We didnt have school ties, and thought the schools that did were anachronistic petit borgeouis institutions.

Explains a lot.

[mockney piers]

I went to a pretty rough school.

Of course now that I wear my stovepipe hat, it's 'ironic' ;-P

[Brendan]

School children

Anachronistic petit bourgeoisie little shits

[Jah Lush]

Dr Taj Hargey, an imam and chairman of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford, said: "This is very disturbing and sets a dangerous precedent.

"It means that Muslim children are being brainwashed into thinking they must segregate and separate themselves from mainstream society.

"The use of taxpayers' money for such institutions should be absolutely opposed. The wearing of the burka or niqab is a tribal custom and these garments are not even mentioned in the Koran."

Quite a bit different to wearing a school tie as part of your uniform.

And

Explaining the school's ethos, Madani's website says: "If we oppose the lifestyle of the west then it does not seem sensible that the teachers and the system, which represents that lifestyle, should educate our children."

Then what are you doing here? Fuck off back to middle ages middle eastern values if that's what you want for you and your children.