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Would they allow someone to wear a swastika in that situation? Nope. The swastika is a symbol of a group of people who wished to annihilate a race of people and conquer free nations.

So you really wouldn't want anyone wearing ANY symbol of people who wished to annihilate races of other people and conquer free nations. That head rag of a washcloth the towelheads wear is a symbol more meaningful and hateful and threatening to humanity than a swastika.

The Turks ban headscarves and turbans in their institutions of learning. Should we in the West do the same? Sort of goes against our principles, doesn't it?

It's messy and ugly, whichever way the government goes. Banning the Muslim headscarf begs the question, why not also ban yarmulkes for Jews (never mind that Jews in Germany already refrain from wearing yarmulkes in public, out of fear for their lives).

Your analogy between Islam and the Nazi ideology is not entirely wrong. After all, Islam is a political system every bit as much as a religion, a system that spreads destitution and misery wherever it rules.

On the other hand, Nazism was not a religion at all. So the analogy breaks down there. After all, many many millions of Muslims don't give a d*mn about jihad, their religion is just a cultural thing for them.

I fear that there is no other way than to deal with the Muslims on a case-by-case basis. They should have the right to wear headscarves even as teachers working for the government. But they will also have to accept especially close scrutiny of what they say and do.

The same goes for every Muslim organization and every imam in every mosque. We need them to know that they are under a magnifying glass from now into the foreseeable future.