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German state to ban
hijab in kindergarten?
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German state wants to ban its kindergarten teachers from wearing a
Muslim headscarf, or hijab.
The conservative state government of Baden-Wuerttemberg is preparing
such a measure, the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported
Thursday. The city council of Ebersbach, a village near Stuttgart,
recently fired Nuray Arioez, 31, a Muslim teacher for refusing to
abandon her headscarf.
State education officials are working on legislation, a ministry
spokesman told the newspaper. Baden-Wuerttemberg is governed by a
coalition of the Christian Democratic Union and Free Democratic Party,
two center-right groups.
Officials want to push the bill into law before the state elections in
March 2006. Kindergartens so far are not affected by the headscarf ban,
which the state had introduced for school teachers in 2004.
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
20 October, 2005 |
