Hello sister,

I’m Muslim and not sure of what u r but I believe that religious freedom should be applied to education laws in France as well as other countries. You can’t force a christian or Jewish female to ware the Hijab in most Muslim countries.

Education is a Human Right and what the UNESCO states always is “Education for all” and I believe when they created this statement they indicated all the Human Rights starting from religious beliefs and ending with personal freedom.

Human Rights = Peace

Those who do not give human beings their rights are making a call-out for a non peaceful planet.

Firstly I’d like to support the response given by Wolfie concerning Islamaphobia and the issues we should be focussed upon. Secondly the number of supposed questions concerning Islam posted on this site demonstrates ignorance, intolerence and isolationism. Are these really the values we in England want to be known for? We must move away from scape-goat politics. Benefit claimants, EU migrant workers, University students and Muslims are not the cause of our financial and unemployment problems. The banks multinational big business and the fact that the “industrial revolution” advantage the developed world (USA, Europe, Japan etc) had that allowed us to generate the wealth that gave us our standard of living has dissppeared. China, India and Russia are now the ermerging economic power houses of the world. We must therefore develop our trade with these countries, look at the technology and services they will need and make sure we are well placed to offer them. We need to stop looking to blame someone for our woes and focus on the issues Wolfie mentioned and recognise that we: i) have an education system that is not delivering a workforce with the skills and knowledge we need to compete globally, ii) live in a capitalist free market world with global trade and understand that big business will move jobs to those countires that have a) a workforce with the skills b) costs are lower (not just salaries but also land, utilities and taxation) c) productivity is higher d) access to target markets is easier. We have Japanese and American car manufacturers based in the UK for all these reasons.

Tough. Have them wear sensible garb, not some ridiculous Halloween style costume from the 7th Century, in which they’ll burn up in the summer all because of adherence to some stupid ancient code.