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I am extremely pleased to see that Denbigh High School has won the case against a muslim girl who wanted to wear muslim dress to school. Schools have dress codes and all pupils must adhere to them.
My 12 year old daughter was recently reprimanded at school for wearing a coat with fur on the collar which apparantly is against the dress rules. Yes its silly and petty but if that's what the rules are then she must stick to them. So what gives someone else the right to think that she can wear clothes which contravene her school's dress code.
The difference here though is that my daughter is unable to complain of racial or religious discrimination because unfortunately in Britain today she is a white, British and nominally Christian.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It is simplistic and potentially dangerous to reduce this debate to being merely a "victory" for "common sense" as if there is only one obvious outcome which should be followed. This case has already gone to the Appeal Court and then the High Court, each of which overturned the decision of the lower court. Therefore there are complex and finely-balanced arguments on both sides.
I am extremely pleased to see that Denbigh High School has won the case against a muslim girl who wanted to wear muslim dress to school. Schools have dress codes and all pupils must adhere to them.
"Must"? It is the thin end of the wedge towards a dictatorship when it is proclaimed that the citizens "must" obey any and every rule or law merely because it is a law, regardless of the morality or sense of that law.
My 12 year old daughter was recently reprimanded at school for wearing a coat with fur on the collar which apparantly is against the dress rules. Yes its silly and petty but if that's what the rules are then she must stick to them.
That's a contradiction.
So what gives someone else the right to think that she can wear clothes which contravene her school's dress code.
Her deeply-held religious beliefs about how she presents herself in society.
The difference here though is that my daughter is unable to complain of racial or religious discrimination because unfortunately in Britain today she is a white, British and nominally Christian.
That's not the reason - the reason why she can't complain of religious discrimination is because the wearing of a fur-collar coat has nothing to do with any racila or religious practices or customs. If having a fur collar were a tenet of the Christian faith then of course she could complain on those grounds.
There's a thoroughly nasty undercurrent to nearly every post I see here when it comes to race and religion - the kind of blanket intolerance which many posters accuse Muslims of.
Just remember that the Jews went through this in the 40's/50's, then the Caribbeans in the 50's/60's, then the travellers in the 90's. Just another minority to blame all our woes on.
The 80's? I suppose people were too busy buying shares and having their hair blow dried to slap any minorites about.
I'm not missing the point at all, as my other posts will show, and yes I'm trying to add my own political agenda, any chance to make a point :o)
It's not really a plight is it. She was just told off for breaking the school rules.
I agree with El D. And Booldawg, I see your point, but I would add that I've been to the middle east and the far east in temples and in the street and many westerners do not adhere to dress codes and it is not forced on them. Myself and people I've travelled with have always adhered to them simply out of respect for other cultures and religions.
sp - I don't agree that there is a nasty undercurrent in the thread. Why is stating that Jilbaab should not be worn in schools a blanket attack against the Muslim faith?