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UK: Muslim parents complain state-funded school’s headscarves not modest enough

Jun 28, 2017 8:19 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

A secondary school has been engulfed in a row over headscarves as a group of Muslim parents have complained the school’s swimming cap style headscarves are not modest enough.

One needs to do a double take on this story to ascertain that is not about a madrasa. Sir John Thursby Community College in Burnley, Lancashire has succumbed to dhimmitude. A row has begun over the school’s provision of headscarves for Muslim women not being modest enough because they are a bit too short in some cases, revealing longer hair. The head teacher, David Burton, has written a letter of apology to Muslim parents, explaining that he is not against headscarves and that he intends to fix them; no mention about who is paying for this Sharia police favor to fix the oppressive covering. The Muslim Local councillor, Shah Hussain, also weighed in, stating that “the whole point is that it is supposed to protect the wearer’s modesty, and that does not happen.”

The Islamization of the UK is out of control: Sharia courts are operating beyond the reach of British law and teaching children fundamental British values has been deemed an act of “cultural supremacism” by the National Union of Teachers.

“Muslim parents group say school’s headscarf ‘not modest enough'”, by Samuel Osborne, Independent, June 27, 2017:

A secondary school has been engulfed in a row over headscarves as a group of Muslim parents have complained the school’s swimming cap style headscarves are not modest enough.

Parents launched an online petition in response to the new veil policy at Sir John Thursby Community College, in Burnley, Lancashire.

The school previously allowed students to choose any style or length of headscarf as long as they were black.

However, the school unveiled plans for approved veils over concerns some were not being worn “correctly”.

Over 150 people signed the petition, which said the veils are “very displeasing” for pupils and could pose a suffocation risk if pulled back by other pupils.

It says: “Unfortunately there was very little consultation by parents or the girls attending the school. Consequently a scarf designed by the school has been created.

“It is very tight and in some cases too short as some of the girls have long hair and so it defeats the object to wear it.”

Shah Hussain, the councillor for Daneshouse and Stoneyholme, told The Telegraph several parents had contacted him about the new headscarf.

He said: “Children have told them it is not appropriate. The whole point is it is supposed to protect the wearer’s modesty and that does not happen. They are quite unhappy about it…..

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  1. notmoron says

    Jun 28, 2017 at 8:45 am

    If Sir Churchill was alive, he would be DISAPPOINTED about the Britons of today

    • JawsV says

      Jun 28, 2017 at 5:19 pm

      Churchill would be shocked and horrified is more like it.

  2. Spike1047 says

    Jun 28, 2017 at 9:07 am

    The answer is very simple: if they have problems why don’t they go to countries which accept headscarves in schools? It’s about time a few politicians grew some b****.

  3. Angel Gabriel says

    Jun 28, 2017 at 9:26 am

    First it is headscarves in state-funded UK schools, next it is mandatory FGM. And instead of getting stoned on weed the students get stoned for real.

  4. Ed says

    Jun 28, 2017 at 9:32 am

    Do non-muslims have to wear the scarf? Are there even non-muslims at that school?

  5. Sardonyx says

    Jun 28, 2017 at 9:33 am

    This is deplorable. The UK government should be giving these girls black burqas and niqabs, to show how truly tolerant and liberal they are towards their Islamic faith and beliefs.

    (Sarc.)

  6. Mary Fran says

    Jun 28, 2017 at 9:48 am

    Why don’t these dissatisfied Muslims go back to Saudi Arabia or Iran or Iraq where they can wear what they want? Why should other countries be expected to bend to their wishes?

    • notmoron says

      Jun 28, 2017 at 10:12 am

      No mam, in those countries you mentioned. there’s no welfare and the self-loathing European.

    • Eur says

      Jun 28, 2017 at 2:00 pm

      They do not leave because they can live without work. The excuse to be well-seen in their community is to be very religious. It’s all image, makeup.
      They do not contribute anything to society and they know it, they are useless. The only way out to feel respected and even feared is by religion. That’s the truth.

      • Bob says

        Jun 29, 2017 at 7:41 am

        Agreed – “…they can live without work…”. According to the koran, the nfidelmis REQUIRED to provide for the muslim, “the best of men”. And their imams tell there flock to claim all the welfare benefits available, as is the right of good muslims.The wesern politicos haven’t understood that, and soon it’ll be too,late!

  7. Greg says

    Jun 28, 2017 at 9:54 am

    This entire “modesty” shit is rooted in “don’t sexually excite men” because after all, men cannot be held accountable if they get excited so the women and often young girls, as young as 6, have to march around covered even in sweltering heat while the men and boys are comfortably dressed in western tee shirts and jeans.

  8. jasnan says

    Jun 28, 2017 at 10:05 am

    How hijab is used to degrade western women

    When Muslim kids ask their parents why we wear hijab and coverup, the Muslims answer would be
    1. Western women are immoral.
    2. They expose to seduce all men.
    3. They are naked…..filthy
    4.they are always looking for scx, because they are not covered therefore are impure at heart quran 33:53 to 55

    But we are modest Muslims unlike the filthy disgusting western uncovered women….we are superior.

    Thats why Immoral western women get rap,ed by our mohammedian brothers.

    Historically the modest dress code is only for arab muslims women, for slaves (predominantly blacks ) they have to be covered below navel and be topless, and used as scx slaves )quran 23:5&6, quran 33:52)……. Allah the perverted racist nazi of arabs

  9. jasnan says

    Jun 28, 2017 at 10:09 am

    How hijab is used to degrade western women

    When Muslim kids ask their parents why we wear hijab and coverup, the Muslims answer would be
    1. Western women are immoral.
    2. They expose to seduce all men.
    3. They are naked…..filthy
    4.they are always looking for scx, because they are not covered therefore are impure at heart quran 33:53 to 55

    But we are modest Muslims unlike the filthy disgusting western uncovered women….we are superior.

    Immoral western women deserved to get rap,ed by our mohammedian warriors,

    Historically the modest dress code is only for arab muslims women, for slaves (predominantly blacks ) they have to be covered below navel and be topless, and used as scx slaves )quran 23:5&6, quran 33:52)……. Allah the perverted racist nazi of arabs

    • simpleton1 says

      Jun 28, 2017 at 5:01 pm

      Good points jasnan.

      “4.they are always looking for scx, because they are not covered therefore are impure at heart quran 33:53 to 55”

      So the concept of female genital mutilation, fgm is to take away “reward”, and so reduce the “always looking for scx”.

      So the un modest are asking for it, a green light to the muslim male, despite all the assurances that he respects all woman,,, haha only the ones dressed to muslim code, and even then ……..

      • Carolyne says

        Jun 29, 2017 at 1:04 pm

        Apparently the thought is that the mere sight of a woman’s hair will thrown a Muslim man into an uncontrollable sexual frenzy, a “Sexual emergency, if you will, and therefore if a woman’s hair is exposed and she gets raped, it is her fault.

        But not too many years ago, Catholic women were required to over their heads in church and even today they are required to wear a veil in the presence of the Pope. Orthodox Jewish women are required to shave their heads and wear a wig. No chance of a man being thrown into a sexual frenzy there, since the woman has no hair.

        All religions have some element of misogyny, Islam being the worst. What is this thing about women’s hair?

  10. eur says

    Jun 28, 2017 at 12:56 pm

    Lancanshire is doomed….
    There is no integration, it is an invasion. That city is not England anymore …
    Polygamy, burkas, chilabas … Nuke them and start from scratch.

    • Charli Main says

      Jun 28, 2017 at 2:47 pm

      Don’t blame the people eur. The people are innocent . ITS THE IDEOLOGY NOT THE MUSLIMS.

      • Eur says

        Jun 28, 2017 at 3:08 pm

        You are right. Sorry.

      • JawsV says

        Jun 28, 2017 at 5:17 pm

        It’s most definitely the Muslims. They are the problem AND their so-called “religion.”

  11. abad says

    Jun 28, 2017 at 8:45 pm

    How about deporting them to Syria, they can dress in tents over there.

    Islam does NOT belong in the UK.

  12. somehistory says

    Jun 28, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    If they want to wear something on their head, why not wear it from home? What *child* would choose to coverup in the water anyway?

    This is disgusting. They demand, demand more, whine and complain and demand more and non-moslums must pay for making them happy…which they never are because then they can’t complain and whine and demand yet more and more. So they never reach satisfaction with whatever is done for them. How else could they whine, demand and complain?

    As someone else asked: do all of the “children”…girls in this “college” have to wear the scarves? If not, that will be the next complaint, demand and whine issue.

  13. HugoHackenbush says

    Jun 28, 2017 at 9:44 pm

    This is a redux of the brouhaha that happened when the schools gave free crucifixes to the Church of England Christians and they were also “unacceptable” due to being too small. Oh! Wait…never mind.

  14. Anne Smith says

    Jun 29, 2017 at 5:42 am

    This is absolutely shocking, it is a sign of the creeping acceptance, little by little of traditional British ways of life being changed to accommodate the newcomers.

    Teresa May is called by many Sharia May – on her watch as Home Secretary Sharia Courts burgeoned all over the country, immigration climbed to new record levels. She is utterly useless, detached from reality and very sympathetic towards anything to do with Muslims.

  15. Jim says

    Jun 29, 2017 at 6:09 am

    Where is the photo of the item in question? How can you have an article discussing something without even showing it? Everyone is commenting on it, but we don’t even know what “it” is. A picture is worth a thousand words.

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