Indian Supreme Court says no beard in school, doesn't want 'Talibanisation'

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@aam_bandha

Sure length of the hair on your head and also your nails are also personal choices. So tell me do they allow students to have long hair and long nails in Pakistani schools. What about uniforms … schools in India have uniforms .. do they have same in Pakistan … or is it a personal issue too. After all most religious scripture have strict guidelines for clothing too !!!Beard or facial hair falls in the same category.

Perhaps you don’t understand english or you just did not read my post. My statement was that perhaps the school had no rule for beard but had one for facial hair. Which indicates what this rule is meant for. You clearly missed the point.

Indian SC interpreted the law as it is stated … minority institutions in India (like the christian school in discussion) are allowed to formulate rules to govern and run their institutions. So if they have a rule for not keeping beard SC can do very little to provide relief. However the guy in question could have taken admission in a government run institution, but then there would be no case of discrimination then !!!

In the end comparison between veil and beard was in the context of religious symbolism. If a PHC judge can ask a lawyer to remove a veil don’t know why the beard becomes a more holier symbol. But then there would be no issue then

Here is the news item which specifically mentions the policy of school regarding the beard

Salim had challenged Nirmala Convent Higher Secondary School’s policy requiring male students to be clean-shaven. The school comes under Sagar diocese in Madhya Pradesh state

Father Illimoottil said the school does not discriminate against any religion but wants to “make sure every student follows school rules and discipline.” The priest pointed out the school’s rule book “explicitly” forbids students from wearing beards. “There was nothing secret about it.”

Union of Catholic Asian News News Archive Supreme Court rules for Catholic school over student’s beard

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             School rules are normally made by schools keeping some basic things in mind. Perhaps **if you were to look at this schools rule for not keeping beard, you will not find any such rule** . What it would say is the **there should be no "facial hair".** While you are thinking of beard as the free flowing long beards, the school (as they kids are still 14-15 year old) is more worried about **1-2 day old "stubble"**.

Again uniform was not a problem for this man nor other things.

Your very own posts contradicted.
In earlier post you mentioned there might not be a rule about beard but rule might be about facial hair hence the discussion went on that direction.

This post mentioned that there was a rule about beard and not facial hair per se.

Don’t know where u got the idea that I had any problem understanding your written english?