While we work our way toward a fascist authoritarian government, Germany is working its way to reclaim its fascist authoritarian past.
Germany’s highest court has ruled that ultra-conservative Muslim girls must take part in mixed swimming classes at school, finding against an 11-year-old pupil who had argued that even wearing a burkini, or full-body swimsuit, breached Islamic dress codes [as it reveals the shape of a woman's body].
The constitutional court in Karlsruhe on Wednesday rejected an appeal by the girl’s parents that she should be excused from the classes because a burkini did not conform with Islam’s ethic of decency, German media reported.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose conservatives have been punished at the polls in regional elections by voters angry at what is seen as her open-door policy, on Tuesday proposed a ban on full-face Muslim veils.
Guardian
Similar stories are playing out in France and Britain, as well as the U.S. Are we really so unenlightened in the twenty-first century that we're battling over religious dominance? Do we think "our" religion is any less arbitrary and patronizing than others? Rhetorical questions.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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