in Huffingtonpost.com, 10/18/2012
In a article reviewing the European trend to ban head coverings of every sort, in every public place, President Bladimir Putin is reported as speaking out against the wearing of headscarves in Russian schools.
"Putin's statement follows a recent incident in Russia's southern region of Stavropol during which a school principal forbade girls from Muslim families from wearing headscarves to class. Their parents protested and the principal said she was threatened.
Asked to comment on the issue, Putin clearly voiced his opposition to headscarves at schools, saying that Russia is a secular state and must create equal conditions for all its citizens.
At the same time, Putin sought to calm passions raised by the dispute, saying that authorities must show a due respect to followers of all religions.
"We have a secular state, and we must proceed from that," Putin said at a meeting with supporters."...
Putin said that . . . any departure from secular rules in public life could eventually lead to the infringement on the rights of followers of other religions. "It would be better if all people feel equal," he added.
In an interesting in-website link, the HPost has linked a 19 photo slideshow of Muslim modest fashion from various fashion shows. Fabulous.
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People NEED to be learn what Marx really wrote about religion. What people like Putin are using for politics is a line completely taken out of context. Amongst other things he wrote religion is the heart in a heartless world and the sould at soulless conditions! If you only hear about the opium- parable you obviously think he hated religion. But not if you read the whole manifest!
People also need to be reminded; The veil was not seen as an "Islamic" symbol until the last decades! In the quran it says to muslim women to wear longer garments from the head (arabic word khemar) to be RECOGNIZED as BELIVING women and gain respect. Who where the respected beliving women wearing such garments back then? Jews and christians offcourse! Read the original greek of what Paul wrote to the Chorinthians long before Islam came; ALL churches had the practice of women wearing a katakalupto until the Corinthian church. That word is not the same he used for hair. It litterally means a long, draping GARMENT that goes down from the head. JUST AS YOU CAN SEE IT ON EVERY WOMAN on all the oldest paintings of christians! Why would they as some of the most brave women be wearing it if it was only some tradition of the Jews they considered overruled by the teachings of Christ? No, as Paul explained for the Chorinthians, this cloth has a christian spiritual symbolism to it! For most parts of history many christian women also covered their hair when going out.
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