Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Overstating the case much? A 15-year-old girl has lost her High Court battle to wear a style of Islamic dress to school.
Shabina's lawyer Yvonne Spencer said her client was devastated and would not be returning to Denbigh school. "The family feels this decision doesn't help integrate Muslims within our society," she said.
Yep, that's right, multiculturalism is failing in Britain because one girl doesn't get to wear the clothes she wants to. Having said that, I can't find any news report that really justifies the school's banning her except on vague 'health and safety' grounds, the Independent tries it's best with Some Muslim girls might be regarded as "better Muslims" than others. But as the BBC report points out, the school has an 80% Muslim population, no-one else has apparently had any problems with the uniform code and it was instigated (according to a report when this case started but not referred to here) after checking with local mosques and religious experts as to what would be acceptible. So probably the best way to solve this would be to call all of them idiots and move on from there.
Shabina's lawyer Yvonne Spencer said her client was devastated and would not be returning to Denbigh school. "The family feels this decision doesn't help integrate Muslims within our society," she said.
Yep, that's right, multiculturalism is failing in Britain because one girl doesn't get to wear the clothes she wants to. Having said that, I can't find any news report that really justifies the school's banning her except on vague 'health and safety' grounds, the Independent tries it's best with Some Muslim girls might be regarded as "better Muslims" than others. But as the BBC report points out, the school has an 80% Muslim population, no-one else has apparently had any problems with the uniform code and it was instigated (according to a report when this case started but not referred to here) after checking with local mosques and religious experts as to what would be acceptible. So probably the best way to solve this would be to call all of them idiots and move on from there.
