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...integration problems, but because it is supposedly archaic and a symbol of the oppression of women. But Muslim women choose to cover their heads to obey God’s command of modesty, which applies to both men and women. If a woman freely chooses to wear the headscarf, it is not oppression. It is simply a matter of obeying a religious...
...religious symbols is an attack on the rights of citizens to practice their religions—a right that is protected in France’s constitution. By restricting freedom of religious expression, the ban threatens to make the headscarf what it was never meant to be: a political symbol. Stigmatizing the headscarf will turn what is supposed to be a sign of devotion to God into a symbol of defiance for young, alienated women—just as not wearing a headscarf in some Muslim countries is a symbol of defiance...
...Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar Mosque in Egypt and one of Sunni Islam’s highest authorities—has publicly stated that Muslim women must obey the laws of the non-Muslim countries in which they live, even if it means not wearing the headscarf. Of course, French Muslims must obey French law, but Tantawi is missing the point of the public uproar. What if they protest the ban not as Muslims living in a non-Muslim country, but as French men and women rejecting a law that infringes upon the freedoms of all citizens? The French women...
First of all, integration has nothing to do with the headscarf. They are simply unrelated issues—women who wear the scarf have a wide variety of relationships to French secular society. I would be deeply offended if my fellow American Muslims were called “un-American” simply because some of us choose to wear the headscarf. But even if the headscarf does indeed represent a segregation of communities, the ban will do nothing to help integrate France. In response to the ban, Muslim parents may take their children out of public schools and place...
...more realistic fear is that some Muslim girls are forced by family members to wear the headscarf. But customs cannot be changed by government decree. This problem, where it exists, must be tackled by education—undertaken by both the state and, more importantly, the mosques. Islam is a religion based on a personal connection with God, and a forced devotion is no devotion...