But the judges ruled that the ban was justified to maintain order and avoid giving preference to any religion.

“tyrannical, satanic secular Turkish republic”. Come on. Keep a sense of perspective. If muslim institutions can demand that people conform to their customs in clothing, secular universitiues can do the same. Personally, I think people are entitled to dress as they please unless it is grossly offensive to others, but Turkey doesn’t practise- officially or unofficially- any of the more repellent ways of enforcing conformity- acid in the face, for example- that it might.

Assalaamu alaikum,

They can’t really raise their voices against him because it’s a crime to criticize him, isn’t it?

Well Ataturk wasnt a Muslim to begin with but the member of the secretive jewish donmeh tribe. Secular universities have no business intefering with an individuals personal faith, a hijab does not convert anyone to Islam, anymore than eating kosher meat makes one a jew. These Europeans charlatans are rotten to the core….

Great point AJ, unfortunetly many people dont know who Ataturk really was. All they remember is that he was the “father of modern Turkey.” Did you know that he died from a combination of syphilis and Liver disease(he was juice hound)?

Oy vey! Ataturk was a mensh. Maseltov.

“The Muslims in Turkey must raise their voices against the inherently tyrannical, satanic secular Turkish republic and its reprobate founder Kemal “Atatürk”.”

Yusef that’s just barmy. And why get so exercised over the sight of female hair? For goodness sake Yusef, you’re an Englishman, you’re not from the bloody North West frontier, you know better. I’m certain that years from now you are going to look back at your silliness and wince with embarrassment.

Ann,

“It’s not just a matter of style - as if we just feel like wearing a particular article of clothing. We’re covering a part of the body that we believe needs to be covered.” Certain Muslim men don’t respect the dress code of Nestorian Christian girls in Mosul or Basra, and in some cases threaten them if they don’t wear the veil. So frankly I’ll reserve my tears and sympathy for more deserving people than Muslim girls (interestingly usually the less comely) who whinge when they are forced to go bareheaded.

H,

You’re spot on in claiming that Ataturk was instrumental in throwing back what you refer to the “kuffar forces” But remember the Greeks were fighting for land what had been historically there’s for over two millenia. And frankly I would be a lot happier if Constantinople was still a Greek Christian city and mass was still said in The Church of the Holy Wisdom, commonly known as Hagia Sophia. But bygones are bygones, the one thing that those unhappy times can teach us (western kuffars anyway) is that population exchange might just be the solution for our restive “Muslim problem” After what happened over the last fortnight in France, I’m not the only one flirting with these thoughts. Keep your powder dry gentlemen we are all in for some interesting times.

The really interesting point is that now, wearing a head-scarve has become an insult and a violation of human rights of those around you.

When the Taliban regime decreed, that every woman has to cover from head to toe everybody had some problems with this imposed dress code. But yet nobody seems to have a problem with a state decreeing a dress code that forbids head scarves (i wonder if the same would happen, if some state suggested fobidding jeans or even covering your legs..).

As an ex-judge at the highest court in Germany (Verfassungsgericht) said: “If the head scarve was per se a political object, then the prohibition thereof is a far more radical political statement!”

Salam.

Omar Abo-Namous