Posted on 10/17/2005 10:04:04 AM PDT by Pikamax
Teacher and Muslim school clash over headscarf
17 October 2005
AMSTERDAM — A 32-year-old Amsterdam Muslim is challenging the decision by an Islamic school not to employ her because she refuses to wear a headscarf.
Samira Haddad, a teacher of Arabic, has asked the equality commission to rule Islamic College in Amsterdam was wrong to demand she cover her head in order to work there.
The case comes a week after Education Minister Maria van der Hoeven said she is in favour of a ban on wearing the all-covering burka in schools.
Tunisian-born Haddad argued before the commission that she is not accustomed to wearing a headscarf in public. She said she had not encountered any difficulty when she completed an internship at an Islamic
school in Rotterdam.
She never had any problem either when she lived and worked in Islamic countries with her head uncovered.
The headmaster of the Islamic College in Amsterdam said the school's statutes state explicitly that the rules of the Koran and the Sunni branch of Islam must be adhered to.
Non-Muslim teachers can be granted an exemption. "If Miss Haddad was to declare she is not a Muslim then she could, in principle, could come and work with us," a member of the school board said.
The equality commission is to deliver its judgement in eight weeks.
bttt
Sounds like she is pro-choice?
Banning the headscarf would be huge. It is important to the iron fisted control and subjegation of women in Islamofascism.
(steely)
And then she could be declared an apostate and a fatwa issued for her death!
And then he added hastily, "Of course, we'd have to kill her for leaving Islam...but, technically, she could work up until the time of her stoning."
Instead of forcing them to employ her they ought to ban headscarves in all of Holland. Their choice, close the school or no more headscarves.
If they want to wear headscarves they should live in a Muslim country.
Interestingly, if this was a dispute in the US, the courts would probably side with the school. There is a fairly well developed body of law in this country that says religious schools are entitled to enforce basic tenents of their religion in their hiring and firing practices, and generally US courts will not interfere with them when they do that. The last such case I recall involved an employee fired by Brigham Young University because, even though he was a Mormon, he did not tithe to the Mormon Church.
Interesting point. I would guess, though, that this Islamic school is heavily subsidized by the Dutch government. I would also guess that the French headscarf ban will be more of a precedent for Dutch courts than US law.
Interesting reversal of the normal case you hear about. However, I don't know what the laws are like there, but shouldn't a private religious school be able to enforce a dress code?
"A 32-year-old Amsterdam Muslim is challenging the decision by an Islamic school not to employ her because she refuses to wear a headscarf. '
Perhaps they can compromise and let her wear a toilet paper hat instead?
As I've said elsewhere: There is no difference between forcing someone to wear something, or forcing someone NOT to wear something.
Either way, those in supposed 'authority' are going after Islamic women, instead of focussing on the true troublemakers.
The "authority" ARE the true troublemakers.
Apparently this is a private school, I don't know how it works in Amsterdam but in the USA private schools can set any dress code they wish for employment. This school should have the same rights, muslim or not. I know you guys are going to think they shouldn't fire this woman but they have the right and she has the right not to work there.
Brave woman.
Refuses to be intimidated.
Imagine how many girls and women are coerced into forcibly wearing the head dress.
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That way we can kill her, then she can come to work for us.
That'll teach me to read the thread before responding :)
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