In Gent, third large city of Belgium, the ban has been imposed on wearing hijab (headscarf). Ban concerns representatives of state structures communicating with population. City Council approved this ban November 28 (26 “for”, 23 “against”). However, it is not clear how to define this category of “representatives communicating with population”, said chairman of administration. Accordingly to him, women in hijab will be proposed another job. Law will concern teachers and policemen.
As IslamOnline informs the same year the second largest Belgian city, Antwerp, adopted the similar law.
European campaign relating to hijab started in 2004, when France banned wearing headscarf in schools and institutes. Since then many countries followed Paris.
Out of 10 mln. Belgians, 450,000 are Muslims.
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