A debate is erupting around Islamic face coverings in Finland’s educational institutions.
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I always love the irony when people worry that others are being dictated on how to dress so they then themselves dictate to people how they can dress.
I always love the irony when people making such comments are unable to understand that setting SOME dressing rules in schools and working places is absolutely NOT the same as the dictation of wearing distinct clothing anytime and anywhere. The latter has far bigger restrictive impact on your freedom of expression.
This puts a lot of pressure on Muslim girls and places them in a further disadvantaged position compared to not only Christians, but even to Muslim boys.
Also, while Finnish schools are expected maintain confessional neutrality, display of a cross somehow doesn’t count.
Fuck religion. Embrace personal experience over dogmatic teachings.
Freedom of religion until we don’t like it.
Why should there be freedom of religion any more? What does religion do?
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Because freedom of religion is pretty much just a special case of freedom of thought and conscience? Unless you want the state to use its monopoly on violence to punish people for wrongthink, freedom of religion is here to stay.
What do you have in mind? Maybe we should start rounding up people for having the wrong belief
This is pure and simple Islamophobia and racism. Their head dressings do not detract from anyone’s learning including their own. This is like banning hair dye because it might “disturb and distract” other students. Bullshit.
I feel like a lot of comments here suffers from The Paradox of Tolerance.
This is about a minister setting down their foot on what degree of tolerance outside of cultural and societal norms this country should have. Just like any other country. Look at for example at Afghanistan, Japan, and Estonia - are they any different? Better or worse?
That’s not what the paradox of tolerance is. The paradox of tolerance, according to your own link, is that tolerating intolerant ideas allows them to thrive and expand until they enforce their intolerance on everyone else. Unless you think that allowing girls to wear burkas will lead to Finland becoming a caliphate, the paradox of tolerance doesn’t apply. Also, in typical Westerner fashion, you completely ignored the impact of colonial meddling in your example choices.
