A Muslim woman is attempting to stand up for her right not to wear a headscarf while teaching at a Muslim school. From Expatica, with thanks to Dutch Cares.
AMSTERDAM — A 32-year-old Amsterdam Muslim is challenging the decision by an Islamic school not to employ her because she refuses to wear a headscarf.Samira Haddad, a teacher of Arabic, has asked the equality commission to rule Islamic College in Amsterdam was wrong to demand she cover her head in order to work there.
The case comes a week after Education Minister Maria van der Hoeven said she is in favour of a ban on wearing the all-covering burka in schools...
The headmaster of the Islamic College in Amsterdam said the school's statutes state explicitly that the rules of the Koran and the Sunna must be adhered to.
Non-Muslim teachers can be granted an exemption. "If Miss Haddad was to declare she is not a Muslim then she could, in principle, could come and work with us," a member of the school board said...
Now this case is hairy:
"If Miss Haddad was to declare she is not a Muslim..." that would make her an apostate, which is punishable by death.
We've had the other sort, those who insisted on wearing a headscarf while teaching in secular Schools. In some cases , -sanity prevailed- and they were banned from shoving the Islamic lunacy down their students throats. In some cases Muslim females succeeded in pushing their agenda.
These problems could be avoided if the host-countries would totally reject Islamic Schools and insisted on integration.
To leave the Mohammedans no alternative, other than to put up (and shut up) with the prescribed curriculum of the host-country, that would at least give some of them a chance to integrate.
But no. Multi-kulti allows for parallel societies, parasites and hosts.
No thank you!
>..."If Miss Haddad was to declare she is not a Muslim
Its almost beyond parody, isnt it, the lunacy that european societies have allowed to develop because of the sheer idiocy of the multiculturalists.
And the Netherlands had got things about right before the multiculturalist mountebanks got their hands on the levers of power, too...
Lots of leverage in this story. Such a great angle: total counterpoint to the assertion that the hijab is a voluntary, loving gesture of modesty on the part of devout Muslim women.
"Be modest, or else--well, at the very least, we won't let you work here. And once we get a good firm hold on this fading Infidel country..."
This is worth noting:
"She never had any problem either when she lived and worked in Islamic countries with her head uncovered."
She better be careful or one of "the faithful" will stick a shiv in her back. Islam has been big on assassination ever since Muhammad had his followers assassinate three people who mocked him in poetry and other ways
This is worth noting:
"She never had any problem either when she lived and worked in Islamic countries with her head uncovered."
It certainly is...if true it means that we've bent over backwards to a greater extent to appease hardcore islamists, than even the Islamic countries themselves?
Helox:
It would also be important to know which Islamic countries she worked in. There are a number of Islamic regimes under which she would not be permitted to work, whether her head was covered or not.
In Europe there are more radical muslims that in countries like Tunis, it´s pathetic.
In Europe there are more radical muslims that in countries like Tunis, it´s pathetic.
Maybe we shouldn't be surprised, though, if this turns out to be the case. Turkey, certainly, and I believe Tunisia to a lesser extent, imposes a degree of secularism. Ataturk knew Islam for what it was, and knew that it had to be contained. Europe has not learned this lesson, and may not before it is too late. With its respect for diversity, its freedom of speech and its democracy, Europe is a sitting duck.
The Tunisians actually religiously profile tourists from Europe...giving those with Muslim names greater scrutiny.
Back in the 80s, Tunisia's aging then-President Bourgaba went on national television to break the ramadan fast...as an example to the rest of the nation.
He also banned the headscarf. Whether or not his successor has relaxed that ban, I don't know.
I DO know that Tunisia has little or no oil, yet it has a literacy rate of 99% and an economic vitality that has produced a large middle class. It is a secular haven in the Arab world and a model for development.
Cornelius - thanks for the information. I've actually been to Tunisia, but it was about ten years ago and, at the time, I did not perceive Islam as a threat or really think about the importance of imposing secularism on Muslims. In fact I don't remember thinking about anything very much at all at the time, and have fond memories of the place.
I've visited Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, and I've got to say that I've felt the atmosphere in the area near the Finsbury Park Mosque, known locally as 'Little Algiers', to be much more menacing.
Interested,
Your point is well-made. The multicultural indulgence in the West has fostered a militancy among Muslims that is absent in much (though certainly not all) of dar ul Islam.
How paradoxical. The conventional wisdom was that European Islam would be diluted....'Islam light' if you will...because of the influences of the larger culture. Instead, the European variant is more virulent and extreme.
An astounding repudiation of multiculturalism.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that Muslim extremism is absent from the Muslim world. The governments of Tunisia and Morocco practice ruthless methods of arrest, torture and execution on an extensive scale, and many, maybe a majority of those targeted by government police are Muslim extremists. Just because one can't see the problem on the surface doesn't mean it isn't there -- in the case of the so-called "democracies" in the Muslim world -- Turkey, Tunisia, Indonesia, Egypt -- often brutally and tyrannically suppressed by the Ministers of the Interior.
One thing happening is that the homegrown Muslim extremists flock to Europe where they have more freedom to congregate, hide, plot and plan their nefarious deeds. Many of the members of the Madrid cell and the Van Gogh cell were Moroccan, for example.
Of course Muslim extremism is not absent from the Muslim world. My argument was that in Muslim countries the state and the police clamp down on it because they are less constrained by human rights considerations and principles of tolerance and free speech.
The fact that third generation Muslims in the UK are often more extreme and more reactionary than their parents is very telling, and makes me rather pessimistic about prospects in Iraq. Democracy, freedom, tolerance, prosperity and education bring out the best in most immigrants, who often thrive in Western countries. But where Muslims are concerned, these benefits just unleash more Islam, which would be better constrained and repressed. At least that seems to be the pattern. I hope, of course, to be proved wrong.
Interested:
I suspect that the growing extremism witnessed in middle class Muslim youth born in the UK has been highly cultivated by a combination of their youthful vulnerability to the influences of the radical imams exported to the UK telling them what the "real Islam" is all about and the usual media culprits and academics representing world events as a case of the capitalistic, imperialistic West exploiting and victimizing the Muslim world for the sake of petroleum reserves. Of course the end result is to end up with nihilistic fanaticism of some sort.
Cornelius says
"The multicultural indulgence in the West has fostered a militancy among Muslims that is absent in much (though certainly not all) of dar ul Islam."
On what basis do you make such a profound and far reaching claim, that it is the multiculturalism of the west that fosters militant Islam?
You might be absolutely correct, but to make such a definitive and profound statment needs more support than a verbal ejaculation.
I'm sure that you can prove your statement.
My theory, on the other hand is, that when Muslims wind up in the west and get a real time experience of the oppressive inferiority of their beloved identity producing ideology, there reaction is to turn their anger and hostility outwards towards the source of their pain (the culture that demonstrates, without speaking, that the basis of their identity is backwards and dysfunctional).
You might, for simplicity sake, call it a form of the politics of envy.
They are raised to believe that Islam is superior to the inferior kaffir, yet evidences of the senses is the opposite. Unable to admit the obvious, that they have an identity issue that is demonstrably inferior, they blame the source of their pain (the west) for proving that they are inferior.
Just like Sayyid Qutb was upset with America because of it's "loose morals", actually his problem was that he was taunted and aroused by all of the bare female flesh and women comingling and dancing with men, but couldn't get laid, and wasn't able to dictate to and dominate women by his mere presence.
One of the biggest complaints of Muslims, that live in the west (if you lurk on their forums) is that their women have no problem attracting kaffir men, but they can't even get a date and walk around (I'm sure) with what we called in adolescence "blueballs".
The point here is that no one (proof exists in postings on this site) likes being called a dumbf*&$, but worse than being called one, is having proof of one's dysfunctional, arrogant stupidity shoved demonstrably in one's face.
Muslim rage in the west, is a product of their self anger directed outwards, they can't blame themselves or Islam, so they blame the west.
An analogy is the anti gun crowd who blames the gun, instead of blaming the hand that held the gun.
But, of course, if there WERE no gun...
Prophet Geoff
BBUH