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| UN scolds France for Islamic headscarf ban |
| 2022-08-05 |
| [IsraelTimes] Committee says Gay Paree guilty of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violation after woman refused entry to education course because of her traditional Islamic headgarb La Belle France violated an international rights treaty when it banned a woman from wearing a headscarf while she studied at a school, a UN committee has ruled. The move broke the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the UN Human Rights Committee said. Its decision follows a complaint filed in 2016 by a French national born in 1977, whose lawyer does not wish her name to be published. The woman was on a professional training course for adults in 2010, and had passed an interview and entrance test. But the headmaster of Langevin Wallon high school in the southeastern suburbs of Gay Paree refused to let her enter because of a ban on wearing religious symbols in public educational establishments. The UN committee said "prohibiting her from participating in her education course while wearing a headscarf constitutes a restriction on her freedom of religion in violation of the treaty." The committee’s decision was adopted in March but sent to the woman’s lawyer on Wednesday. "This is an important decision which shows that La Belle France has work to do in terms of human rights and in particular on the issue of respect for religious minorities, and more particularly the Moslem community," her lawyer Sefen Guez Guez told AFP. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 SANITY JUST KICKED IN When you bend over backwards and still have major issues, it is time to quit kissing your A$$ and address the root of the real problem. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-08-05 16:19 |
| #4 Note who is heading the 'Human Right Commission'. Thqat's right. a butch of 'Islamism'. |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-08-05 15:23 |
| #3 So a practitioner of Vaudun can sacrifice a 'white goat' on campus? Note: the term 'white goat' can mean a human sacrifice... |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-08-05 11:29 |
| #2 I can't wait to see someone tell the UN to fuck off while giving a speech there like the Japanese did to the League of Nations. |
| Posted by: Chris 2022-08-05 11:20 |
| #1 Fuck 🎵 off. The French know fashion best. And headscarves are so last century. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-08-05 10:26 |