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Actually, some of the articles quoted in this discussion interviewed fired girls who insisted on wearing hearscarves at school against the advice of their parents. Maybe in a link from Wikipedia I also read of an example from before the ban in the nineties when a girl became an obvious "born-again Muslim" fundie (the same way boys do), and even rejected a compromise offer allowing her to wear a headscarf but calling on her to attend science and physical exercise classes. This latter case indicates to me that there are other ways to identify forced or voluntary fundies than enforcing headscarf bans with zero distinctions and a threat of expulsion.
It's about enabling an environment where a girl's worth is not defined by wearing a headscarf or not, and where nobody has a right to make assumptions about her sexuality depending on whether her hair is visible or not.
That sounds nice, but by having headscarf-wearers expulsed, the ban assuming all of them to be proselytizing fundies, and switches the onus of neutrality from the state to the citizen (perhaps you missed this). *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
But consider : those girls who wear scarves because that's what is expected, and what the family wants, are also expected to not put themselves forward, because it's not their place to be in the limelight.
So you get a self-selecting sample, which can not be expected to be representative.
(perhaps you missed this)
I must have read it a dozen times
Yet you ignore it. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
And yes, I remain unpersuaded by the writer's thesis. Sure, the spirit of the law of 2004 is not the same as that of the law of 1905; times have changed. The question was seen as stopping a snowballing situation (the holiest girls wear scarves, others are shamed into joining them...) which ends up with a strongly proselytizing effect. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
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