Kosovo upholds ban on wearing headscarf in schools

[Bengal_Tiger]

Kosovo upholds ban on wearing headscarf in schools


Community members are planning to take the Kosovar government to the European Court of Human Rights over the ban.




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Women will not be permitted to wear headscarves in public schools even in the future, Kosovar President Atifete Jahjaga told the media.
This decision sparked protests among devoted Muslims in Pristina, with some members of the community threatening to take the government to the European Court of Human Rights.
"It is not permitted and it will not be, because Kosovo is secular state,” Jahjaga said in an interview with Kosovar channel KTV.
The controversial ban was imposed in April, 2010.
The government forbade headscarves in public schools, stressing the constitution's portrayal of Kosovo a secular country.
The majority of Kosovo's population identifies themselves as secular Muslims, according to a recent census.

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1. The Kosovar elite do not like to be associated with Islam, as it feels that it distances themselves from their European identity.

2. Some of the Kosovar elite hate Islam and wish their nation had not been converted to Islam.

In Albania it is worse with politicians and writers openly expressing hostility to Islam. Ismail Kadare, the Albanian writer said Albanians should convert en masse to Catholicism. A previous Albanian president, Alfred Moisu said Muslims in Albania were merely an accident and product of Turkish rule.

Muslim Albanians of Kosova also faced severe persecution by the Christian Serbs including destruction of mosques.



Mosque in Peja ("Pec") destroyed by Serbs in Kosova.



Another mosque destroyed by Serbs.


Muslims in the Balkans including in Kosova, Albania, Bosnia, Sandzak are facing difficult times and a strong and powerful Turkey and neo-Ottomanism in the Balkans is something that will be welcome by them to protect their survival and faith.

[Badlun]

Secularism is the only way out. This is the era of nation states. Not caliphates. Secularism is the middle way. Practise your religion at home, in mosque, in family but not in market, courts, Parliament, culture and society.

Otherwise there will be two extremes: Taliban or Atheism. Another possibility is conversion of Muslims to peaceful religions like Catholicism or Buddhism.

Scarf is part of your culture not a fundamental of Islam. Compromise on it otherwise the consequences will be terrible. Kosovo should look to EU not to the deserts of Arabia.

[Friend]

The fruits of secularism. Ban on scarf by force and badlun tells us there is no use of forcein secularism and that secularism is the middle and then threatens us to embrace secularism otherwise the consequences wil be terrible. Ahan

[Badlun]

The fruits of secularism. Ban on scarf by force and badlun tells us there is no use of forcein secularism and that secularism is the middle and then threatens us to embrace secularism otherwise the consequences wil be terrible. Ahan

Scarf if used in winter to cover your head will never be banned but as a religious symbol it is banned. Why it is banned because religion is for private life not for society.

All fundamentals of Islam like monotheism, prayers, fasting, going to Hajj, zakat are your individual acts. Then spirituality and morality is again personal. Maximum laws like marriage, divorce etc family matters can be religious but beyond that starts secularism.

[Friend]

Badlun you are a parrot repeating the same thing with no logic or common sense. You are an educated jahil.

[Bengal_Tiger]

Secularism is the only way out. This is the era of nation states. Not caliphates. Secularism is the middle way. Practise your religion at home, in mosque, in family but not in market, courts, Parliament, culture and society.

Otherwise there will be two extremes: Taliban or Atheism. Another possibility is conversion of Muslims to peaceful religions like Catholicism or Buddhism.

Scarf is part of your culture not a fundamental of Islam. Compromise on it otherwise the consequences will be terrible. Kosovo should look to EU not to the deserts of Arabia.

1. A Muslim believes that Islam is the truth and in the hereafter those who follow Islam will be rewarded. Islam being the truth by definition means that other religions are not true etc if I say Madrid is the capital of Spain that by definition means Barcelona, Seville are not the capital of spain.

2. Anyone who encourages conversion of Muslims to other religions or apostasy is not a Muslim.

3. [MENTION=1753]Manzareh[/MENTION] , thanks to Manzareh who had been warning us all that Badlun/Osho may just in fact be a Pashto-speaking Hindu who uses a Muslim mask to cover up his hatred of Islam and Islamophobia.

I am not making any definitive statements about him, but realize he is dangerous and not to be trused and better to be ignored and not communicated with.

I am now placing him on block and will not be communicating him in any way.

[Friend]

1. A Muslim believes that Islam is the truth and in the hereafter those who follow Islam will be rewarded. Islam being the truth by definition means that other religions are not true etc if I say Madrid is the capital of Spain that by definition means Barcelona, Seville are not the capital of spain.

2. Anyone who encourages conversion of Muslims to other religions or apostasy is not a Muslim.

3. [MENTION=1753]Manzareh[/MENTION] , thanks to Manzareh who had been warning us all that Badlun/Osho may just in fact be a Pashto-speaking Hindu who uses a Muslim mask to cover up his hatred of Islam and Islamophobia.

I am not making any definitive statements about him, but realize he is dangerous and not to be trused and better to be ignored and not communicated with.

I am now placing him on block and will not be communicating him in any way.

Bengal Tiger, you said the truth and also gave a useful advice. I will try to follow it. Thanks a lot.