Muslim German Minister Bans Cross in schools ... !

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I'm not familiar with the exact reading of this specific ban, but I would guess it is a ban on what children can wear, not on crosses being erected on state school premises. Those have probably long since been done away with in the home of Friedrich Nietzsche. If German law is as you describe it, refusal to let children wear crosses could easily be construed as a violation of their right to express their political and religious ideas. I'm hard pressed to see how the ban could possibly be viewed as upholding anyone's rights. I'm also hard pressed to see how the ban is solving some problem, like bans on gang related clothing do. It does nothing but single out groups of people and oppress them a little. I'm personally a fan of school uniforms, which solve a wide variety of others, in my opinion, but since crosses fall into the category of jewelery, are we going to say no jewelery as well? How about no make up? Before we are done, they'll all be wearing something akin to a state issued berka.
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Hi,

I meant the classrooms (like the walls, for example), not what the children wear. And the point of the law is to guarantee the freedom of thought for everyone.

Regards.

Javi Uffhofen, May 1, 2010 IP

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A call by a German politician of Turkish origin for a ban on Christian crosses in state schools has sparked uproar in her conservative party and death threats from far-right groups.

Ayguel Oezkan, the 38-year-old daughter of Turkish immigrants, is poised to become social minister in the centre-right government of the western state of Lower Saxony, and called for the ban in an interview with a German magazine.

'Christian symbols do not belong in state schools,' she told weekly Focus last week. 'Schools should be a neutral place.'

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Stefan Mueller, a member of parliament who represents Angela Merkel's CDU and its Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) allies on integration issues, used stronger language, calling the remarks 'absurd and shocking'.

'Politicians who want to ban crosses in schools should think about whether they belong in a Christian party,' Mr Mueller was quoted as saying in German media.
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What is interesting is that the ruling Christian Democrats are the ones objecting to the remarks and that she is a Christian Democrat. Apparently the politics of Germany still harbor elitism instead of inclusion.

It is also interesting that not everyone understands the basic reason why religion is served within its own walls than pretentiously displayed in a state institution. - American Democracy refutes the notion of any sponsorships by the state in accordance to minority rights that Europeans have yet to realize as the next step to atonement which is supposedly a Christian objective.

Breeze Wood, May 1, 2010 IP

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May be he has a different plan to change the world.

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Tahseem

sweetmonika, May 6, 2010 IP

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