Denmark and Germany to ban crosses in schools and courts
Posted on May 15, 2008
Filed Under EU, Islam in Europe, Media, News, Religion, Stupidity
This is how Denmark and Germany surrender their original religious values - the values their societies were built upon - all in the name of multiculturalism.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s government said Wednesday it will prepare legislation that would bar judges from wearing Islamic head scarves and religious symbols in court.
While the law would also ban crucifixes, Jewish skull caps and turbans, it highlights ongoing debate over Islamic traditions in Denmark, an issue that gained world attention in 2006 when Danish caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad triggered violent protests in Muslim countries.
Although there are no known cases of a judge in Denmark wearing a traditional Muslim head scarf known as a hijab, Justice Minister Lene Espersen said the law was needed because judges “must appear neutral and impartial” in court.
A law which prohibits Muslim women teachers from wearing headscarves in a German state’s public schools also forbids Catholic nuns from wearing their veils in regular classrooms, judges said Wednesday
The administrative tribunal of Baden-Wuerttemberg state set out the position in a detailed written judgment, two months after ruling verbally that a woman convert to Islam, aged 58 at the time, could not teach in her scarf.
The teacher converted to Islam in 1984 and began wearing a headscarf during class in 1995. The southwestern state has a law that bans “exterior expressions of religious confession.”
The so-called “headscarf debate” is a long-raging one in Germany, home to more than 3 million Muslims, most of Turkish origin. Many consider the headscarf a form of oppression against women and say immigrants who want to live here harmoniously must accept certain Western values and play by German rules.
Others say forbidding it amounts to discriminating against Islam and that Germans should learn to accept other cultures and traditions.
I wonder, how will the judges and school principals act once a judge or a teacher, wearing a small cross on his/her neck, enters the premises and refuses to remove it. And how does it all fall in the frames of the “freedom of religion”?
By issuing such laws, European countries achieve nothing but creating a breeding ground for future disasters to come. The original citizens of Europe may now be silent, but it looks like this situation will not remain forever.
The first glimpse of where it’s all going we got after France, Switzerland and Italy voted for right wing parties who promised to impose a tougher laws on immigration. This should serve as a warning sign to the European pseudo-liberal suicidal establishment. Next time the Europeans will vote for those who are going to propose a direct actions against certain groups in the European society, and then, all of them will end up in the situation nobody currently wants be in.
