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I disagree. Most women don't want to wear headscarves, and a few people who do that willingly don't justify allowing religious symbols. People coming from strictly religious families find refuge in schools. And for them, school is an excuse to not wearing or performing religious clothing or rituals for at least 5 hours per day. Schools should definitely ban strictly all things non-secular
EDIT: now, I agree with OP
I'm sorry but this seems just so wrong to me.
Isn't the ban just about headscarves? A piece of cloth is not a religious symbol and policing women about their fashion choices is an awful idea.
It seems specifically worded to hide behind (white) feminism while just being another bigoted law that specifically targets Muslim people in Europe to scare them and to send them a message.
And I would like to know on what you are basing this idea that "most women don't want to wear headscarves". Maybe most white Western women don't?
Because from my personal life and experiences I can tell you that I've met plenty of both Muslim women and also black women who not only preferred wearing a headscarf, but actually felt more empowered precisely because they could control who gets to see what of themselves.
And don't even get me started on the weird obsession that white people have for black people's hair. So wearing a headscarf can also helps to have healthier hair... In addition to literally stopping white people from randomly touching your hair just because "they're so different!"
The ban is made for hijab but I forgot the word so I used a more literal translation for the Dutch word which is headscarves. Though headscarves probably fall under the new measure as hijab wearing people would otherwise be able to say it's just a regular headscarf.
Thank you for the clarification then!