Austria’s Government Aims to Ban Headscarves in Kindergarten

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Austria’s government announced intent to ban the wearing of headscarves by girls in kindergarten, saying their goal was to stop the “development of parallel societies” within their country.

The law, if passed, would bar girls up to the ages of 10 or so from wearing headscarves to school.

The move is sure to elicit anger from the Muslim community. Most Muslims believe the headscarf for females is a religious requirement.

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Austria’s right-wing government announced plans on Wednesday to ban girls from wearing headscarves in kindergarten and primary schools to combat what it sees as a threat to Austrian mainstream culture from some Muslims.

Austria took in more than one percent of its population in asylum seekers during Europe’s migration crisis, an issue that helped Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s conservatives win an election last year by taking a hard line on immigration.

“Our goal is to confront any development of parallel societies in Austria,” Kurz told ORF radio, using a term he and the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), the coalition partner, favour to describe what they see as a threat posed by some Muslims to mainstream culture.

“Girls wearing a headscarf in kindergarten or primary school is of course part of that.”

If any such plan became law it would apply to girls of up to around the age of 10 years.

Many Muslims believe their religion requires girls to wear a headscarf from puberty. Headscarves are rarely worn before then.

Kurz, at a news conference with Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of the FPO, said they believed there was a problem in schools though they produced no figures to support this.

“What I can tell you is that it is a growing phenomenon. A few decades ago we did not have this in Austria and now it occurs primarily in Islamic kindergartens but also here and there in public establishments of Vienna and other cities,” Kurz said.

He said a bill would be drawn up.

Austria’s main Muslim organisation was not immediately available for comment.

The previous coalition of Social Democrats and Kurz’s conservatives, passed a law banning face coverings including Muslim full-face veils in public spaces, but women and girls are free to wear regular hijab.

It considered banning teachers from wearing headscarves but that plan was dropped after a debate over religious symbols in schools such as the Catholic crosses that still hang on many classroom walls.

For any headscarf ban to come into force in kindergartens, which are run by Austria’s provinces, the government would need a two-thirds majority in parliament and therefore the support of either the Social Democrats or the liberal Neos party.

While the Social Democrats said they wanted a broader package of measures, they did not rule out cooperation. The Neos said they would examine the text drawn up by the government.

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Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago

Brave Chancellor Sebastian Kurz & his coalition Heinz-Christian Strache 🙂

Vienna still had have a meeting with Muslim warriors https://quran.com/4/74-76, 8/39

Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago

… refuse to wear the ‘religious requirement’ the Muslimah could be beaten by her husband to coward women beater’s (40/2) order, ‘beat them’ https://quran.com/4/34

MattBracken
MattBracken
6 years ago
Reply to  Thorsten

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SemurJengkolMaknyus
SemurJengkolMaknyus
6 years ago
Reply to  MattBracken

free women ……. wanton women ………….are hard to distinct ….

no wonder you are doomed ….

MattBracken
MattBracken
6 years ago

Thank you for opiningcomment image , slave master.

Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago
Reply to  MattBracken

kid Aisha 8 (9 lunar) years
vs. granpa pedophile muh. 54 https://sunnah.com/bukhari/67/69

‘consummated’, nice word for raped AliSina.org

SemurJengkolMaknyus
SemurJengkolMaknyus
6 years ago
Reply to  MattBracken

Bible – Deuteronomy 21:10-14, King James Translation :

[ 10 ] When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

[ 11 ] And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
——————————————————-
Torah – Devarim 21 :

(10) When you go out to war against your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your hand, and you take them captive,

(11) and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire her, and you take her as your wife,

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Muftis say: Uncovered Kafir women are like meat; it is their fault if they get raped by Muslim men

Three Hindu minor girls were raped in West Bengal when they are passing through Muslim majority area. Read the full report….. (Courtesy http://hindusamhati.blogspot.com/).

Women are abandoned “meat” and are like temptations from Satan. All this justifies Sharia provisions about veiling and other ridiculous conditions on women ( in accordance with Koranic verse 24:031) and thus, raping infidel women is part of the overall imperative of Islam to impose Sharia (Allah’s law) on infidels.

This is what an Australian Mufti Al-Hilali has to say on women victims (Not Just Muslim Women) and Muslim rapists: Women not covering themselves with Hijab are like uncovered meat with the risk of getting raped:

In a Ramadam sermon in a Sydney mosque, Sheik al-Hilali suggested that a group of Muslim men recently jailed for many years for gang rapes were not entirely to blame.

There were women, he said, who ‘sway suggestively’ and wore make-up and immodest dress “and then you get a judge without mercy and gives you 65 years. But the problem, but the problem all began with who?” he said, referring to the women victims.

Addressing 500 worshippers on the topic of adultery, Sheik al-Hilali added: “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it..whose fault is it – the cats or the uncovered meat?

“The uncovered meat is the problem.”

He went on: “If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab (veil), no problem would have occurred.”

Women, he said, were ‘weapons’ used by Satan to control men.

muslim men are weak and tools of evil.

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
6 years ago

… and you take her to thy wife” OK, semen .. in mohammedanism … Those women become possessions of their right hand … moslems are immoral, slave grabbing filthy descendants of the cross-breeding of monkeys with pigs.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
6 years ago

So those verses excited you so much you had to post them twice?

SemurJengkolMaknyus
SemurJengkolMaknyus
6 years ago

just google yourself how bible has no dispute on slavery ….

copy pasting is not very interesting me ..

LaddyboyD
Laddyboy
6 years ago

Why are you comparing the Old Testament to the New multiple revised koran? You would be amazed with the blatant difference when you compare the New Testament with the current revised version of the koran.

SemurJengkolMaknyus
SemurJengkolMaknyus
6 years ago
Reply to  MattBracken

———————————————
Bible – Deuteronomy 21:10-14, King James Translation :

[ 10 ] When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

[ 11 ] And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
——————————————————-
Torah – Devarim 21 :

(10) When you go out to war against your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your hand, and you take them captive,

(11) and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire her, and you take her as your wife,
—————-

Can somebody help me answer this multiple choice quiz ????????

SNOWDIN
SNOWDIN
6 years ago
Reply to  MattBracken

Funny

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
6 years ago

Still curious, semen. Why are ALL moslem males homosexuals?

edD
ed
6 years ago

He cannot answer you now, as he is busy with his boyfriend……

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
6 years ago
Reply to  ed

Good one, ed!

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

muslims like to rape non muslim women because they are all there. muslim women are missing pieces, including their marbles.

Tm.
Tm.
6 years ago

Please do not pass judgement on women. Is not life harsh enough that we have to go about being judgemental.
Would it not be better if we focused our efforts to researching cures for diseases, and focusing on preserving resources?
Would it not be better if we focused on our personal selves and allow other adults to make their own choices?

SemurJengkolMaknyus
SemurJengkolMaknyus
6 years ago
Reply to  Tm.

only dead organism/system do not make judgement anymore …

animals …humans …autonomous cars make millions judgement process everyday ..

i am responding my opponent who consider women in hijab are disappearing ….

while in fact these women have very strong presence for their essential role as women ….

… while “free women” are in fact disappearing themself from their essential role ….. to raise a family as building block of society ….

Allow other adults to make their own choices????

Which one is more superior ….. freedom or truth ???

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
6 years ago

Yeah we all know the muslum saw:
women are for procreation,
little boys are for recreation.

SemurJengkolMaknyus
SemurJengkolMaknyus
6 years ago

yeah …..

i have to admit that western women have more meaningful life with their mission to explore their clitto knobs ….

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
6 years ago

Women are always the problem for muslum men aren’t they? Maybe that’s why they like their lady boys and bacha bazi boys?

Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago
Reply to  MattBracken

… like flies love the stench of shi%&

MattBracken
MattBracken
6 years ago

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OverIt
OverIt
6 years ago
Reply to  MattBracken

Why don’t western feminists care about this? Because they have far more important things to worry about. Like what the US President said in a pissing contest with other males 12 years ago. Get your priorities right!

MattBracken
MattBracken
6 years ago
Reply to  OverIt

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Kat Mandu
Kat Mandu
6 years ago
Reply to  MattBracken

You are posting utter nonsense

MattBracken
MattBracken
6 years ago
Reply to  Kat Mandu

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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Kat Mandu

Prove it.

Dagonet
Dagonet
6 years ago
Reply to  Kat Mandu

“nonsense”?

Why can’t you say it isn’t true?

F- you.
F- pisslam.

Templar Bubba
Templar Bubba
6 years ago

I’m thinking that we can anticipate September 11, 1683 again. Sometime soon. I hope the King of Poland is available.

Dagonet
Dagonet
6 years ago
Reply to  Templar Bubba

It’s taken more than 300 years, but they’re back, and this time they’re winning.

F- pisslam.

Templar Bubba
Templar Bubba
6 years ago
Reply to  Dagonet

I think these savages have been here a long time. The sooner the sane world addresses them, the better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I_To-cV94Bo

Chrissy T
Chrissy T
6 years ago

Hahaar one way of trying to rid themselves of the scum and prevent more from turning up

762x51FMJ
762x51FMJ
6 years ago

They want to keep their parallel society and eventually extinguish the host country.
If young girls do not wear the hijab in Muslim countries but are required to in non muslim countries then the demand is to avoid ” exposure” to the prying eyes of the kuffar. They cannot stand western society and Islam to them is a sight for sore eyes..
Meanwhile in the eyes of all non muslims.. Islam is a sore for the sight of eyes.

Dagonet
Dagonet
6 years ago

Send them back to their S-hole homeland.

F- pisslam.

SNOWDIN
SNOWDIN
6 years ago

We will see if they really go through and implement this law in Austria.

jess
jess
6 years ago

just kindy not ever or never! what a friendly society these mudslimes come from

robbydot
robbydot
6 years ago

Who started this headscarves thing? They’re hijabs NOT headscarves, there is no political significance attached to headscarves.

Georg Peter
Georg Peter
6 years ago

when do these short-sighted politicians realize that Islam is not a religion.
Islam and its practice and teaching must be banned, and people who do not accept these prohibitions must be expelled from the countries

Tm.
Tm.
6 years ago

I may very well be in error, but at present, I blame the governments of Europe, and other countries, as they have not considered what their actions have done to the demographics of their countries. They have not projected forward, they did not think about the consequences that now face their people. And it is their fault.
These issues that confront the West are non existent for Middle Eastern countries, because they have common sense in those places. They do not invite in dissension, and conflict.
I have seen some of the pictures from the links provided by other posters below on this thread. One was of a soldier from over there, holding up a…well I can’t speak of it. But after seeing that, I hope, well I am going to be praying. If humanity is so depraved, I pray God returns soon.
People don’t know, do they? We aren’t getting the proper news.
The secular lands should not have to be dealing with these issues. One inch forward, ten steps backward.
Utter fools, what have you done. Why do you not see or understand? People, vote carefully and educated yourselves.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
6 years ago

So they can’t wear hijab but they can still be married against their will to dirty, bearded muslum pedophiles? How enlightened!

LaddyboyD
Laddyboy
6 years ago

Politicians, Don’t just ban pieces of cloth. Ban and deport the barbaric worshipers of an IDOL that sits in a black shack in mecca exposed in a corner so the muslems can kiss the “black rock” that they call their moon god, allah.

D A
D A
6 years ago
Reply to  Laddyboy

They come by the millions to caress and kiss the Silver Vulva of their moon god too. Which holds the moon god in mecca.

Iftikhar Ahmad
Iftikhar Ahmad
6 years ago

Native Europeans must learn to respect and tolerate those who are different. Now, after the Muslims women are involving more and more in the society, those people are trying to get them back to the ghettos by banning them from wearing the Hijab…And the other one who were saying that: Men are imposing the Hijab to those women and are covering that by saying: it’s her choice. This argument is simply ridiculous, it seems that she doesn’t want to hear that someone wear it because of their spiritual journey, she definitely wants them to oppressed. And the French guy who were saying: We are banning it because of the dignity of the woman and gender equality ==> Since when the equality is used to restrict the liberty of free choices. Those people need to be reminded that this law is totally opposed to the universal human rights.

Living in the west, the hijab has become a potent indicator of identity with many non-Muslims viewing it as a political statement. However, it is pertinent to note that the hijab is, first and foremost, an act of worship that women engage in, and an act undertaken to seek the pleasure of one’s Lord.

Why is it that a Muslim woman cannot dress modestly without being labelled as oppressed, yet a Catholic nun can do the same without anybody blasting her. This whole skimpy dressed fashion is a 20th century movement. Why hasn’t this new movement caught on in the religious circles of Christianity, why do the nuns cover themselves from head to toe. Do you consider the wives of Moses & Abraham or the mother of Jesus as oppressed because they weren’t strutting around in bikinis? The difference here is that most followers of Christianity in the late 20th century delegated modesty to the pious ones only. Whereas Islam has maintained that modesty is for all women not just the church affiliated ones! The reason being that Islam does not change with time, its message is universal for all times. I am against anyone being forced to do something, but don’t take this away from the millions of Muslim women (especially in the west) who dress modestly because they want to. And you will find within those families too some siblings wearing the headscarf while others not.

Wearing a burka does not prevent Muslim women ‘engaging in everyday life’ in Britain. Baroness Warsi defended the right of Muslim women to ‘choose’ to wear the burka. She suggested that many Muslim women choose to wear the veil of their own free will. ‘Why should we tell women what to wear? What it boils down to is choice. If women don’t have a choice over what to wear then they are oppressed. But if a woman has a choice, and she chooses to wear whatever she chooses to wear then she’s not oppressed is she? She’s choosing what she wants.’ Critics claim that the burka alienates Muslim women from the rest of society. But Lady Warsi said the burka did not act as a barrier in itself. She added: ‘There are women who wear the burka who run extremely successful businesses – internet businesses, which don’t actually require you to be there face to face.’I don’t believe it’s for the state to say what we can and cannot wear. Any woman who supports the Burkha should wear one. There is a social and economic pressure on Muslim women not to cover themselves with Hijab or Niqab. Syeda Warsi is a member of the Toy Cabinet because she does not cover herself with Hijab or Niqab. Only those Muslim women who are having post of responsibility are those who do not cover themselves. Only those Muslim women receive OBE, who do not cover themselves. Banning the veil or blocking the building of minarets would alienate the Muslim community and threaten social cohesion. There is no need for the British Establishment to ban Niqab because it is a Munafiq society. Those western European countries who have banned Niqab are Kaffir. Some young Muslim feminists consider the hijab and niqab political symbols, a way of rejecting Western excesses such as binge drinking, casual sex and drug use. Which is more liberating: being judged on the length of your skirt and size of your breasts, or on your character and intelligence? A careful reading of the Qur’an shows that just about everything Western feminists fought for in the 1970s was available 1,400 years ago to Muslim women, who are considered equal to men in spirituality, education and worth. When Islam offers women so much, why are Western men so obsessed with Muslim women’s attire? Even British government ministers Gordon Brown and John Reid have made disparaging remarks about the niqab, and they hail from Scotland, where men wear skirts. “common sense” not to wear the niqab because it makes social relations “more difficult.” Nonsense. If this were the case, why are cell phones, e-mail, text messaging and fax machines in daily use? Covering ones body up does not reduce their intelligence or physical and mental capabilities in running their home, raising their kids, getting a degree, making money, being an informed member of society or their social interaction with other fellow humans. The niqab does not make them inferior. Why are people reluctant to associate with us as willingly and openly as with other Muslim women who don’t cover their face? We don’t bite or are any different. Is is because they are afraid that we are more ‘terroristically’ inclined because we choose to follow our religion more closely? On the contrary, people who follow their religions closely, any religion, realize that they are under more obligation to uphold the sanctity of their faith under all circumstances and no religion teaches violence. To make a long argument short , women who cover their face and observe Niqab, are as normal as anyone else. If we are the victims then we are indeed the victims of mass propaganda and false advertising against Muslim women that has caused this breach of trust between us and the rest of the world. We are very normal, we are very human and we are as intelligent as anyone else….the real beauty and inner strength lies within the mind.
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