The Islamic College Amsterdam (ICA) says it will ignore the ruling that it cannot insist Muslim women wear a headscarf in order to work as a teacher
Expatica:
The Equality Commission ruled in November that the ICA was wrong to deprive Samira Haddad, 32, of a teaching job because she refused to cover her head with a scarf. The ICA was given a month to reply to the commission's ruling.
The school's board agreed that, technically speaking, a headscarf was not necessary for the performance of duties in the school. But there are clear clothing regulations in the Islamic religion, the board said. "The necessity is linked to our philosophy of life and the related rules."
The school also responded to a letter from Amsterdam Alderman Ahmed Aboutaleb, who expressed concern about the school's intolerant attitude. The ICA said the key issue was not one of tolerance but the freedom of religion.
"The profession of the Islamic faith leads to prescribed regulations in relation to clothing," the ICA said.
Hat tip, Giraldus Cambrensis!
posted by Adam Lawson @ 11:59 AM
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Does ICA condone this in the name of religion?
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Taliban execute teacher for teaching girls
KABUL, Dec 16 (Reuters) Suspected Taliban guerrillas dragged a teacher from a classroom of teenagers in southern Afghanistan and executed him at the school gate after he ignored their orders to stop teaching girls, police said today.
The attack was carried out by two armed men who arrived at the secondary school in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province by motorcycle yesterday, Helmand police chief Abdul Rahman Sabir told Reuters.
''They dragged the teacher from the classroom and shot him at the school gate,'' he said.
''He had received many warning letters from the Taliban to stop teaching, but he continued to to do so happily and honestly -- he liked to teach boys and girls,'' Sabir said.
He identified the teacher by the single name, Laghmani.
The fundamentalist Taliban banned education of girls during their rule before being overthrown by U S-led forces in 2001.
The guerrillas have carried out a series of attacks in the provinces on schools teaching girls since them, often burning them down at night.
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