CORRECTION: A Muslim has written in to tell me that sevenn-year-old girls are indeed required to wear the veil. I have seen other sources putting the beginning of this requirement at an older age. This story has girls aged 8 beginning to wear it.
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Seven-year-old girls are not required to wear the veil in any case. In other words, some adults are using this girl to make a political point. And that political point is that Muslims will not conform to the mores of Spanish society.
“Girl, 7, who wears veil, allowed back to school,” from Deutsche Presse Agentur:
MADRID – DPA – A seven-year-old Moroccan girl living in Spain went back to school Tuesday after the Catalan regional government allowed her to do so wearing the Muslim headscarf.
The girl had stayed home for a week after the school in Gerona said the headscarf was against its norms.
Education officials said the girl’s right to education was more important than the school’s norms, and that tolerance should be applied to the hiyab or Muslim headscarf.
Sure. But how long will tolerance be applied to those who don’t wear it?