Teen Christian Jewelry
Is secularism imposing discrimination upon religious faith
? Regarding headscarf, maybe Muslim girls do not have the chance to
choose while Catholic schoolgirls once away from home, hiked up their
skirts to match fashion and not parental dictates.
Look on the other side of it. Forcing girls who choose to wear hijab
to take it off is a violation of their rights and their religious
faith in the name of an arbitrary secularism. Again, note that
Christian schoolgirls are allowed to wear religious jewelry with a
weak excuse that it has become part of fashionable culture. Well, in
some respect, wearing particular styles of headscarves can be
fashionable culture as well. The argument does not hold. If there is
a ban on religious wear, then it needs to be consistent, fashion or
no.
In any case, the inconsistent application of the law makes it suspect
in my eyes, and makes me suspect that it is a form of racial and
cultural discrimination even more than it is anti-religious. And
while anti-religious actions annoy me, especially since rabid
secularism is as much a form of religion as Christianity, Islam,
Judaism, etc; racial and cultural discrimination outright makes me
angry.