German state to ban hijab in kindergarten?

By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

Published October 20, 2005

A German state wants to ban its kindergarten teachers from wearing a Muslim headscarf, or hijab.

The conservative state government of Baden-Wuerttemberg is preparing such a measure, the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported Thursday. The city council of Ebersbach, a village near Stuttgart, recently fired Nuray Arioez, 31, a Muslim teacher for refusing to abandon her headscarf.

State education officials are working on legislation, a ministry spokesman told the newspaper. Baden-Wuerttemberg is governed by a coalition of the Christian Democratic Union and Free Democratic Party, two center-right groups.

Officials want to push the bill into law before the state elections in March 2006. Kindergartens so far are not affected by the headscarf ban, which the state had introduced for school teachers in 2004.
 

 Source: www.wpherald.com