It did not say they aren't forced inside or outside of school. The hijab is most definitely a covering for a woman's head required by the Islamic religion.
Why is it necessary to declare whether I support dress codes in private schools? That's something that goes on at private schools all over the world and was going on long before I was born. I already told you that the school that man was over was a private religious school and as such it's their right to require the girls there observe a tenet of their faith. In the same way that Catholic schools require modesty in dress as opposed to the let it all hang out nature of clothing in today's public schools. Of course I support their right to do that. But the hijab takes it further. Women in many Muslim countries are chattel. The hijab, and even more so the burqa, symbolizes the woman's subservient place in their belief system. A Catholic schoolgirl can go home after school and change into another outfit. But Muslim women where enforced risk physical harm for not wearing the hijab. As a matter of fact there were major protests in Iran last year after their police beat a young woman to death who refused to wear a hijab. Years ago there was a fire at a girls school in Saudi Arabia. The girls tried to flee the fire but were beaten by the morality police and forced back into the burning building because they weren't properly covered. A lot of girls died.
our tenant was a rebel in iran and the govt gave her a choice, either stay and go to jail or leave. she left. i agree people are dying out there. our women are treated less badly but we have problems for women here too like abortion, maternity leave, lower pay, single mothers with inadequate welfare, sexualized commercialism, etc. for example usa never had a woman president win. what do you think thats about...
i agree in iran the women are supposed to wear a hijab
it said "encourage pupils, in its school rules, to wear a hijab outside school as well as in the classroom." if theres rules which encourage thats not forced.
im not sure the hijab symbolizes that because when i google it the first result doesnt mention it. it could be a right wing conspiracy theory. ill ask my neighbour too.
you can be a muslim and not wear a hijab. i sat next to a turkish girl in school. she didnt wear one but she prayed all the time. she wasnt very honest haha. i dont think you know too much.