State schools in the Flemish part of Belgium, banned the wearing of Muslim headscarves and other religious symbols. Despite the protests of the Muslim community, the decision of the Council for Education of Flanders will be applied from 1 September next year.
After the French and the state schools in the Flemish Belgium banned the wearing of Muslim headscarves and other religious symbols.
The decision brought the Council for Education of Flanders, despite protests from the Muslim community.
From 1 September next year, 700 public schools in the Flemish community in Belgium, where lectures are held in Dutch, will be prohibited from wearing Muslim headscarves.
After an appeal to the girls that decision, the highest judicial organ of the Belgian Council of State announced that the school can not independently make decisions about the wearing of religious symbols.
"We hope that the debate in the public cease to be a student of the Muslim religion to think about their future and that they will first be educational value, and then the religious symbols," said Van An Drihe from the Council of Education Flemish Community.
Two schools in Antwerp 1 September already implemented new regulations to ban the wearing of headscarves.
"It is important that all schools implement the new regulations and that all students have equal chances, but the choice of school should not depend on whether it is allowed to wear headscarves or not," said Secretary of Education in Antwerp Robert Vorhame.
Except in Flanders to ban wearing of Muslim headscarves be debated in frankofonskom part of Belgium, Wallonia and bilingual Brussels.
France has so far been the only European country in which the 2004th The banned the wearing of headscarves in public schools.
The law prohibits the carrying of jeverejske caps and large Christian cross, but it is primarily designed for the removal of Muslim headscarves in school desks.
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