“Germany’s highest court has ruled that Muslim girls must take part in mixed sex swimming classes at school, rejecting a complaint filed by an 11-year-old girl who said that even wearing a full-body burkini swimsuit violates strict Islamic dress codes….According to the constitutional authorities, the girl in Frankfurt am Main could not prove that a burkini does not comply with Islamic law. The lower courts had found earlier that there are ‘no binding rules in Islam’ that define appropriate clothing.”
So apparently if there had been “binding rules in Islam” regarding what Muslim girls could wear while swimming, she would have been excused. Yet just days ago Merkel said that German law “takes precedence” over Sharia. Now we see which legal code actually takes precedence over the other.
“‘No binding rules in Islam’: Muslim girls must take part in swimming lessons, German court rules,” RT, December 8, 2016:
Germany’s highest court has ruled that Muslim girls must take part in mixed sex swimming classes at school, rejecting a complaint filed by an 11-year-old girl who said that even wearing a full-body burkini swimsuit violates strict Islamic dress codes.
The pupil of Moroccan descent refused to attend swimming lessons with boys, and was given an unsatisfactory mark as a result, AFP reported.
The girl had argued before lower courts that swimming in a burkini revealed the shape of her body, and that the sight of her fellow pupils in swimwear made her uncomfortable, according to n-tv.
Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe dismissed the girl’s appeal that had sought an excusal from the classes, Suddeutsche Zeitung reported.
According to the constitutional authorities, the girl in Frankfurt am Main could not prove that a burkini does not comply with Islamic law.
The lower courts had found earlier that there are “no binding rules in Islam” that define appropriate clothing….
Stressing that German law “takes precedence” over Islam’s Sharia code, on Tuesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel proposed a ban on full-face Muslim veils in Germany, telling delegates at the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) congress that they should be banned “wherever it is legally possible.”