DUSHANBE: Tajikistan has banned school and university teachers under the age of 50 from wearing beards and limited the beard length for older education staff.
Tajikistan, which borders Afghanistan, regards radical groups as a threat and has cracked down on religious movements, which are not in line with the state-sponsored version of Islam. According to the rules, published at the weekend and effective from October 1, teachers aged over 50, can wear “a tidy beard no more than 3 centimetres long”.
But, in a balancing nod to conservatism, the new rules also prohibit teachers from wearing Western-style clothes such as jeans, mini skirts and T-shirts. “All those novelties are introduced as part of an ongoing school and higher education reform and are in line with the mentality and the customs of our people,” Education Ministry spokesman Abdulkhamid Nozimov told reporters on Monday. Tajik President Imomali Rakhmon has earlier banned mobile phones from schools and universities and said students should not arrive for lessons in their own cars. reuters
Dutch-language public schools in Belgium will ban the wearing of Muslim headscarves in classes, school officials in the Flanders region announced Friday.
The ban affects 700 schools in the northern region of Flanders, including some in Brussels.
It follows protests after two schools in Antwerp this month joined other schools where the Muslim headscarf, which covers the hair but does not conceal the face, is already banned.
Responding to a complaint by a student at one of the schools, Belgium’s highest administrative tribunal ruled on Tuesday that schools could not take such decisions on their own.
The tribunal will rule on the student’s appeal next Tuesday – prompting the community’s education board to make public its unified stance on Friday.
Belgian schools have previously enjoyed autonomy in such decisions, with one third authorising the wearing of Muslim headscarf, another forbidding them and the remainder giving no formal guidance.
The Flemish school board said the ban in communal schools would be introduced gradually to give time to those establishments which have not banned the scarf to do so.
Schools in Flanders that are financed by other Belgian communities – mostly Catholic schools run by municipalities – are not bound by the order.
School authorities in the main Flemish town of Antwerp announced a ban on the headscarf from the start of the next academic year.
A similar debate is underway in Belgium’s French-speaking Wallonia, and the Brussels capital region.
Controversy has raged in a number of European countries in recent years over the wearing Muslim headscarves and other religious garments in state or public institutions.
It is indeed secular extremism,but if it can successfully check those bloody suicide bombers to blow up, than its most welcome.
what is your problem here Raj ind
why do u always have to divert the discussion towards the extremism and islam etc.
u really have an issue here with that
i am talking something totally different here
why always and in almost every post of urs in GS u have to shove extremism
are there no Hindu exremists in the world?
We all condemn extremism in whatever form and whoever does promote it
so do not come here hand try to be holier then the pope and mix issues that are totally
irrelevant with my article i did post.
just take a chill pill.
This is ironic–on more than one level… Do you want to compare the West’s record on human rights and democracy with that of Pakistan and certain other nations, such as Pakistan’s hero Saudi Arabia? Notice that Christians, Jews, Hindus, Ahmadiyas etc. are all fleeing Muslim countries (there are almost no Jews left in Arab states and Christians have fled en masse from places like Egypt and Iraq) while Muslims are tripping over themselves to immigrate to the “intolerant” West.
In some countries there is a staunch separation of religion and state, i.e. no religion is allowed into government places (the US, for instance, does not go this far but France does). However, even in places like France there is freedom to wear scarfs, crosses, or whatever you wish outside the government sphere. Compare that to the news out of Lahore today… Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan Do you see Belgians interfering with mosques?
As to “big filthy mouth”, I just noticed you live in the West. :rotfl: Why live with “filth” (let me guess: you are a fan of Sayid Qutb?) when you can live in the “land of the pure” or Islamist utopias such as Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Wazirstan?
Immigration is one of the biggest decisions a person can make. Perhaps it would be a good idea to do homework on the country you are considering to immigrate to? I am not familiar with Belgium, but in France, where a similar ban was placed on *all *religious symbols (yes, including crosses and yarmulkes) there is a 200+ year history of staunch secularism, stanch separation of religion and state. If French Muslims wanted to live in a religious state they could have immigrated to several other Muslim nations. Let’s face it: most immigrants look only at financial gain and do no research on the history, values, culture, and politics of their prospective new country. French Muslims have themselves to blame for the religious symbols ban. They should have known where they were immigrating. I imagine Belgium is similar.
Well Said friend. These same guys who jump up and down when they see these kind of news do not even utter a whisper if people are killed based on some blasphemy laws. They will try to justify the same.
This is something I fail to understand. Why is it OK for Pakistan/Islamic countries to cause hardship to minorities, while it is not OK for the west to expect people to follow certain rules of decorum in their countries.
Well Said friend. These same guys who jump up and down when they see these kind of news do not even utter a whisper if people are killed based on some blasphemy laws. They will try to justify the same.
This is something I fail to understand. Why is it OK for Pakistan/Islamic countries to cause hardship to minorities, while it is not OK for the west to expect people to follow certain rules of decorum in their countries.
mr simply me!
i think it wud be better if u add sth related to the thread ...............
Violation of the basic tenent of Human rights. The right to practice your religion freely. Shocking considering this concept is 60 years old and people still have an issue with it. If you have an issue with such a basic fundemental human right, you need help.
what is your problem here Raj ind
why do u always have to divert the discussion towards the extremism and islam etc.
u really have an issue here with that
i am talking something totally different here
why always and in almost every post of urs in GS u have to shove extremism
are there no Hindu exremists in the world?
We all condemn extremism in whatever form and whoever does promote it
so do not come here hand try to be holier then the pope and mix issues that are totally
irrelevant with my article i did post.
just take a chill pill.
Peace happyheart,
I was not respsonding to ur post in fact, rather to mevirick.
I was in agreement with him that not allowing someone to practise his or her religion is indeed secular extremism. But I m of the view that if measures like this kind can successfully check radicalism to spread, which is apparent cause of such curbs, than its welcome.
I was in agreement with him that not allowing someone to practise his or her religion is indeed secular extremism. But I m of the view that if measures like this kind can successfully check radicalism to spread, which is apparent cause of such curbs, than its welcome.
u r ignoring the carpet bombing by US in iraq and afghanistan. but u have only issue wid the suiscide.
beside the topic is secular extremism not relegious extremism.
i wud appreciate if u add sth relevant to the topic.
No I m not ignoring that, but our topic of discussion in not carpet bombing of iraq or afganistan but secular extremism being practised by
Tajikistan government to check radicalism in their society.
I have no issue with suicide, rather suicide bombing. Kind of which U see now and then in ur country.
LMAO! So you commit one crime to stop another one. Well done.
Its very much natural, if one is having a malignant tumor than he has to be operated upon to remove the malignancy. This has to cause pain to his body and scar will remain for ever, but should the patient complain of such things? U decide.
Violation of the basic tenent of Human rights. The right to practice your religion freely. Shocking considering this concept is 60 years old and people still have an issue with it. If you have an issue with such a basic fundemental human right, you need help.
Yes it is an issue.But why is this not practiced in the Islamic countries. See you give something it is very essential that you expect something in return.
Let me explain something to you ****ing idiots your mother should have taught you at the age of two. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Just because one retarded muslim country does it does not make it right. Here is your problem. You lot are so blinded with your hatred you will sell your morals.
Not allowing the freedom to practice ones religion is abhorrent. Hell its just plain stupid. Its a shame you defend it.
Raj_Ind it is not a crime to operate on a tumor. Your analogy fails basic logic. Try again.
Let me explain something to you ****ing idiots your mother should have taught you at the age of two. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Just because one retarded muslim country does it does not make it right. Here is your problem. You lot are so blinded with your hatred you will sell your morals.
Not allowing the freedom to practice ones religion is abhorrent. Hell its just plain stupid. Its a shame you defend it.
Raj_Ind it is not a crime to operate on a tumor. Your analogy fails basic logic. Try again.
I dont see you getting so worked when worst forms of discrimination is happening in muslim countries. Maybe your mother taught you that it was OK as long it was a muslim country. A wrong happening anywhere is wrong, but to get so worked up when small adjustments are to be made is appalling and decries reason(which I believe is a problem that cannot be solved by this generation)...
And also your mother would be proud of the fact that you call people names... Good for you. Shows the kind of upbringing you would have.
Well Said friend. These same guys who jump up and down when they see these kind of news do not even utter a whisper if people are killed based on some blasphemy laws. They will try to justify the same.
This is something I fail to understand. Why is it OK for Pakistan/Islamic countries to cause hardship to minorities, while it is not OK for the west to expect people to follow certain rules of decorum in their countries.
It is very hard to understand huh?
I mean i can understand when someone fails to understand his/her own shortcommings
its not easy to live with that.
Your addiction of Pakistan and everything that has to do with Pakistan :)
does make u say things that are totally nonsense and irrelevant. Whatever the topic
and whatever the thread lolz u have to mention Pakistan. Actually the love you show for Pakistan and your unconcealed display of your patriotism on this "Pakistani" GS forum amuses me alot and am proud that Pakistani forum does tolerate all this. I know for sure ( i have experienced it myself many times) India forum would never allow some Pakistan to say anti Indian comments on their forum.
Why do U fail to understand time after time after time after time :) that its NOT ok for Pakistan or any Islamic country to cause hardship to minorities!!! Who said its OK? If some nuts out of almost 2 billion Muslims said this does it make a law?
No one i mean no one even not India (and u know what is happening in India with minorities do i need to sum it up for you?) should minorities be marginalised, discriminated or be caused hardship. Its so easy to understand but u simply do not understand it because you are filled with anti Pakistani rhetoric and ideas. Its so sad, Please come of the dark room and think our of the box. Because sometimes its really boring to read ur comments try something new somethings freshening because u know what reply you will get and your comments will be proven nonsense. :)