I’m sorry, but that is a load of garbage and patently not true. I am a student in one of the most liberal college towns in the USA. In the same city, there is a rapidly growing convent of nuns who dress in full-length white habits and black veils. I’ve rode the campus and buses with some of these nuns.
Yes, because we’re an open socioty that claims to respect freedom of expression
I don’t think so. One poster above gave a link to German attempts to ban Islamic head scarves. I know that it has been proposed and is perhaps the law in France. European countries with a large influx of observant Muslims are frustrated because they are slow to assimulate which appears to cause problems. Public schools in Bavaria often had or have crucifixes on the class room walls. There were recent objections to that as well. There genuinely are parts of the world that are troubled by the display or wearing of garb that is either religious or which appears to be irreligious; western clothing on women in some Muslim nations.
Greenland (Denmark)??? North America??? How do you figure that’s North America? I haven’t read the whole thread already, so this may be addressed, but I’ll never find it again or forget about it if I don’t do this now.Let’s get this right. Let’s define North America.
North America = Greenland (Denmark), Canada, USA, Mexico, and Caribbean.
Where, besides Mexico and Cuba are religious clothing banned?
There is not such law in the USA. I don’t know about Canada or Denmark. There is not such law in the Caribbean nations.
Why would we want to ban Muslim garments if Christians and Jews are allowed to wear religious garb. Isn’t a yamulke a religious piece of clothing?
I grew up Jewish and converted at age 20. I always wore a yamulke (kippah). Sometimes I still wear it in public, when its appropriate or expected, just like Brother Bob Fishman on EWTN.
The Daughters of Charity run Providence Hospital in Washington DC. They wear their blue.
The Franciscans in our parish wear their habits when it’s cool enough.
The Orthodox Jews here wear their kippahs everywhere, not just for holy days.
No, religious garb is not forbidden for anyone iin he USA so why should Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and other eastern religions be targeted?
It’s unconstitutional and also un-Catholic.
JR
Greenland is an autonomous part of Denmark, but geographically it is part of North America – same as St-Pierre et Miquelon (an overseas department of France, but only a few km off the coast of Newfoundland).
I don’t think that either the hijab or Catholic habit should be banned. Maybe I am odd but I think some of the women who I see with head coverings look very pretty.
