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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 6084015" data-attributes="member: 24302">It did not say they aren&#039;t forced inside or outside of school.&nbsp; The hijab is most definitely a covering for a woman&#039;s head required by the Islamic religion.&nbsp; Why is it necessary to declare whether I support dress codes in private schools?&nbsp; That&#039;s something that goes on at private schools all over the world and was going on long before I was born.&nbsp; I already told you that the school that man was over was a private religious school and as such it&#039;s their right to require the girls there observe a tenet of their faith.&nbsp; 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&#039;s public schools.&nbsp; Of course I support their right to do that.&nbsp; But the hijab takes it further.&nbsp; Women in many Muslim countries are chattel.&nbsp; The hijab, and even more so the burqa, symbolizes the woman&#039;s subservient place in their belief system.&nbsp; A Catholic schoolgirl can go home after school and change into another outfit.&nbsp; But Muslim women where enforced risk physical harm for not wearing the hijab.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Years ago there was a fire at a girls school in Saudi Arabia.&nbsp; The girls tried to flee the fire but were beaten by the morality police and forced back into the burning building because they weren&#039;t properly covered.&nbsp; A lot of girls died.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 6084015, member: 24302"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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