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5. New ban on the hijab in Belgium

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Year: 
2008
Week: 
5
Article number: 
5
Article pages: 
p. 12
Date of source: 
30-01-2008
Author: 
‘Abd Allah Mustafá
Reviewer: 
Ihab Shukri
Article summary: 

‘Abd Allāh Mustafá reports on Belgian local authorities banning official employees from wearing the hijāb or any other religious symbols.

Article full text: 

For the third time, Belgian local authorities have banned official employees from wearing the hijāb or any other religious symbols.

The decision came as an addition to a previous government decree to ban the hijāb. It is expected that such a ban on wearing religious symbols will eventually affect all of Belgium after the local council of the city of Liege agreed to apply the decision.

It is noteworthy that the draft law to ban the hijāb as well as other religious symbols was first initiated by the Belgian Flemish Liberal Party and was supported by the Christian Democratic coalition party.

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