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Hijab Wars: Belgian top court upholds hijab ban

Woot!  (IMO - the hijab is no more a religious symbol than the hood of the KKK.)

From AKI.

Belgium's top administrative court, the Council of State has ruled that schools may ban girls from wearing the Muslim headscarf. The court said the ban was not discriminatory and reinforced the principles of equality and solidarity.

The Movement against Racism, anti-Semitism and Xenophobia (MRAX) however slammed the ruling as "ideological, factious and anti-democratic".  It said the group was considering whether to appeal the ruling at the European Court of Human Rights or the United Nations' Human Rights Council. It will decide on its course of action later this month.

MRAX had sought to outlaw a rule at two Belgian schools prohibiting pupils from wearing 'any type of head-covering or political or religious symbol'.

Muslim women in the neighouring Netherlands last month formed a group to fight for the right to wear the heardscarf at work, after numerous employers told them it was against company policy.

Turkey's Islamist-leaning government tried last tried to lift a ban on female students wearing the Muslim headscarf at university, but this was blocked by the country's constitutional court.  The headscarf is a sensitive issue in officially secular Turkey, where it is seen as the symbol of political Islam.

Legislation is in place in France banning the wearing of religious symbols including the Muslim headscarf in public schools and offices.

Hezbo leader and Cartoonist who depicted Anne Frank in bed with Hitler gain entrance to UK. Geert Wilders still banned.

"Write that in your diary, Anne." was the cartoon's caption.  (They'll let these disgusting pigs in but a Dutch parliamentarian is banned.  Just vile.)

From News of the World UK, of all places.  (h/t Religion of Peace)

HOME Secretary Jacqui Smith's department is under fire for allowing two leading terrorist sympathisers to enter Britain.

Both spoke at the House of Commons last week at a pro-Palestinian meeting organised by a far-left Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn.

One is Hussein Al Hajj Hassan, a member of the political wing of Lebanese terror group Hezbollah.                          Hussein Al Hajj Hassan  -->

The other is Dyab Abou Jahjah, a Belgian Muslim firebrand who has published disgusting anti-Semitic cartoons.

One showed Adolf Hitler and 15-year-old Holocaust victim Anne Frank both naked in bed with the caption: "Write that in your diary, Anne".

A Home Office source said last night Ms Smith had been alerted that Jahjah was on his way and was preparing to ban him. But by the time officials had completed the paperwork he had already arrived. The source said: "If Jahjah puts a foot wrong he will be arrested."

<---Dyab Abou Jahjah.

The failure to keep both men out during the G20 summit comes in the same week she was given a final warning by Gordon Brown in the row over hiring adult films on expenses.

It also comes less than two months after she publicly banned anti-Muslim Dutch MP Geert Wilders from entering the UK."

(Meanwhile, Geert Wilders spoke at Chapman University last night and appeared on FNC this morning speaking about Article 132 - unfortunately, haven't been able to find the vid yet.)

In other UK cartoon news: UK funded charity publishes a "Cartoon strip aimed at under-12s depicting Christian boy as Islamaphobe thug".

Nice, real nice.

In a cartoon strip, a boy wearing a large cross around his neck is shown telling a friend that a smiling Muslim girl in a veil looks like a terrorist.

He later confronts her and shouts: ‘Hey, whatever your name is, what are you hiding under your turban?’

She replies that the garment is called a hijab and it is part of her religion, ‘like that cross you wear’.

The girl is then shown standing up for another boy, who is being  bullied, and her behaviour is  contrasted with that of the boy wearing the cross.

You evil Christians always calling us names for blowing up churches and mosques!