Headscarves in Parliament

From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Wed, 2008-04-09 14:14

A quote from The Copenhagen Post, 9 April 2008

It was a victory for the Red-Green Party's Asmaa Abdol-Hamid and a bitter defeat for the Danish People's Party on Tuesday when parliament's board of governors ruled that MPs may dress as they wish in parliament, so long as they can be recognised by their colleagues. The decision was specific taken up in response to the issue of women wearing the traditional Muslim headscarf. […]

Abdol-Hamid was happy with the ruling. 'It's the decision I expected. Anything else would have been a blow against democracy and in conflict with the constitution,' she said. […] The board's decision parallels a ruling earlier in the week by the Board of Justices, which stated that judges may also wear the Muslim headscarf.

Abdol-Hamid was happy with

Submitted by Monarchist on Wed, 2008-04-09 18:57.

Abdol-Hamid was happy with the ruling. 'It's the decision I expected. Anything else would have been a blow against democracy and in conflict with the constitution,' she said.

Although I oppose the state to interfere how people should dress publicly unless this is not kind of demoralizing perverse, this is not the case. Employer have the right to demand from employed people to dress in certain manner. If one disagree he should find other job.

In this case she raised argument of "democrat terror", how surprising... :) This is so typical to democrats, this hypocrisy. Could you ever imagine a democrat who would accept such argument, "Anything else would have been a blow against monarchy", no way they endlessly interfere all over the world to spread this destructive system!