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July 14, 2004Top * Some choice! Good for you Maryam! [Saving
children from the chador] You're so right! A school girl would never consider refusing her parents' demand to wear hijab to school no matter how much difficulty it gave her. This is, as you said, a case where the state needs to step in and defend the girl from even subtle intimidation. Let her be emancipated and adult enough to make her own decisions about that. Another side affect of hijab in schools is one you didn't mention. It hasn't happened too much here in the U.S., but in France, hijab had an effect on Muslim boys that you might just chalk down to political Islam: before the hijab was officially banned in schools there (still being hotly contested), non-Muslim, unhijabbed, girls were being more and more harassed and assaulted by Muslim boys who - due perhaps to the comparison with the hijabbed girls - were viewing them less as fellow students and more as sex-objects devoid of humanity. The trouble THAT caused was one
of the reasons hijab was banned in French schools, but it doesn't get
mentioned as much because, I think, the PeeCees don't wish to insult
Muslims there with the awful way their boys are behaving. Too polite,
methinks, but at least they are sticking to their guns in upholding
the ban. Debra Watts |
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