Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Girl wins right to wear muslim headress in school

It appears the girl is being used by extreme muslim groups to push their agenda. The school in question had already bent over backwards to accomodate muslim dress. She herself came acros as trucculent and arrogant but being only 16 not the greatest crime.

The only solution to this intractable problem would be a complete separation of school and state then people can send their children to secular or religious schools befitting their beliefs. That way tax payers would not have to support with their money schools percieved by them as inimical to their own beliefs.

If the status quo of State funding were to be maintained I would argue that the bias would have to be towards non religious uniform. For heaven sake at the end of the day we are still a nominally christian country, not a muslim one (thank God).

To drag the criminal human rights into it is to compound the folly and I found it particularly ironic that a muslim woman appeared on ch 4 news from an organisation the Muslim Human Rights. Now there is a oxymoron to conjure with.