Next day an Imman calls hellfire down on the school. And he does it in an amazing display of religious reasoning :
- The Quran says that women must wear a headdress.
It does, actually (depending on the interpretation) a burka with veil is called for
- Every girl or woman chooses if she wants to wear a headdress.
How very nice of him to say that, the Quran doesn't.
- A girl not wearing the headdress creates a problem.
Suddenly not so nice any more.
- Others may (rightly) create trouble / problems for the girl.
I may be a stupid person, but is that not exactly the very reason for the ban ? If this was brought by a person speaking the native language (Dutch) in a literate manner I'd laugh in his face and point out why his reasoning is flawed. It was not. It was brought by somebody that speaks Dutch as if it was a kafir (yes, I know exactly what that word means) language he only sullies his mouth with when he has no other choice.
In this I follow Mr Nicolas Sarkozy. There are a lot of things he is not. Modest for one. But his comments on the burka are worthy of praise and I can only hope the Antwerp school will stick to its guns as well.
