Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will hold an emergency meeting with senior aides Friday after Turkey's top court upheld a ban on the Islamic headscarf in universities, dampening his party's hopes of surviving a pending closure case.Islamic headscarfs are as much a religious symbol as a Christian cross is.
It would seem to me that if American schools and universities are actively banning any Christian symbolism, literature or conversation on campus as a exercise of the "separation of church and state" concept promoted by non-Christians, they should follow Turkey's lead and ban any Islamic symbols also, such as headscarfs and burkas. To be fair, such a ban would also include those little beanies the Jews wear, the yarmulke, which originally was supposed to be worn only in a synagogue as a sign of respect.
That, or just let people wear whatever they want and just shut up about it. After all, that's what the idea of freedom suggests.
Any functional human should be mentally stable enough to withstand any "assault" on their sensibilities and beliefs that a headscarf, a cross, or a yarmulke may confront them with. If they aren't, they should not be allowed outside in public.
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addendum:
It is a policy on this blog not to discuss the merits or fallacies of any religion, but when religion - any religion - starts to adversely affect the operation of a government by attempting to impose its own particular and unique beliefs on that government - religion then becomes fair game, and rightly so.
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