{"id":7188,"date":"2020-12-21T12:45:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7188"},"modified":"2021-04-18T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T11:51:17","slug":"austria-top-court-overturns-headscarf-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2020\/12\/21\/austria-top-court-overturns-headscarf-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria: Top Court Overturns Headscarf Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2020\/12\/21\/austria-top-court-overturns-headscarf-ban\/austria-headscarf-ban\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7189\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7189\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/austria-headscarf-ban.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/austria-headscarf-ban.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/austria-headscarf-ban-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Austrian Constitutional Court has ruled that Austria\u2019s ban on the wearing of headscarves in public schools violates the freedom of religion and the freedom of expression and therefore is unconstitutional.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Austria: Top Court Overturns Headscarf Ban<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/16873\/austria-court-headscarf-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | December 21, 2020<\/p>\n<p>The Austrian Constitutional Court has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vfgh.gv.at\/medien\/Verhuellungsverbot_an_Volksschulen_ist_verfassungswid.de.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruled<\/a> that Austria\u2019s ban on the wearing of headscarves in public schools violates the freedom of religion and the freedom of expression and therefore is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The case highlights the constitutional restraints that European governments face in regulating political Islam and promoting integration.<\/p>\n<p>The headscarf ban, introduced in June 2019 by a governing coalition comprised of the center-right People\u2019s Party (\u00d6VP) and the populist Freedom Party (FP\u00d6), was an extension of a groundbreaking October 2017 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/11104\/austria-integration-law-burqa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Integration Law<\/a>\u201d that sought to improve the integration of Muslims into Austrian society.<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/11104\/austria-integration-law-burqa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banned<\/a> face coverings \u2014 including <em>burkas<\/em>, <em>niqabs<\/em> or masks \u2014 in public spaces. The 2019 law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ris.bka.gv.at\/Dokumente\/BgblAuth\/BGBLA_2019_I_54\/BGBLA_2019_I_54.pdfsig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">extended<\/a> that ban to preclude children under the age of ten from wearing headscarves in primary schools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/16873\/austria-court-headscarf-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Austrian Constitutional Court has ruled that Austria\u2019s ban on the wearing of headscarves in public schools violates the freedom of religion and the freedom of expression and therefore is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[114,48],"tags":[60,143,133,181],"class_list":["post-7188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austria-islam-in-europe","category-islam-in-europe","tag-austria","tag-burqa-bans","tag-cultural-integration","tag-islam-in-europe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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