Dear @thetimes @SianGriffiths6
Why's the hijab being sexualised?
Yet it's ok for the same 5 year olds to have sex education lessions?
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And until a child reaches that maturity parents are able to make decisions about their children.
Depends what they are. Concepts of gender-specific modesty & lust-reduction cld be conveyed in age appropriate ways at home. Not in schools
They are right to let children be children & insist little girls are not burdened with notions of modesty abt their bodies.
Responsibility and Authority are born Together! To make me Responsible for someone/something without Authority to manage it is Injustice! !
You still have to dress your child appropriately for school.
Keyword "Appropriately"! In Whose estimation? The true hallmark of a democracy is the treatment of its minorities!
Yes, they need to have the same rights & responsibilities as everyone else.
If it were not so loaded with sexual connotations, cld be appropriate for a primary school. Nothing wrong with a scarf in itself unless hot.
Sexual connotations for a 5 year old? Are you really saying that? Has it occured to you that its a worn as a religious symbol?
But of what? Modesty as a religious virtue. Gender-specific modesty codes don't get better because they're religious.
If something is of my faith I uphold it regardless of liberal sensitivities. Where is your 'tolerance' or as always Islam is the exception?
And I defend your right to do so. Wear a hijab if you wish. Don't expect schools to help you enforce this on primary school children.
There is no enforcement. If parents wish to make the choice then the're free to do so. Only reason this is a story is because it's Muslims.
Its not the parents who are forced to put little girls in hijabs, no. It's the little girls who have to dress as their parents tell them.
In the same way you'd like your children to be 'Liberals' others want them distinctly 'Muslim' also. Please understand this and move on.
Ultimately parents make decisions on even more crucial matters. Exceptionalising the Hijab is indicative of a particular obsession.
Yes, it does. I think primary schools are also sensible to disallow nail varnish, make-up, high heels etc
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