German Muslim teacher fails with Grace Kelly defence
Aug 14 01:07 PM US/Eastern
A woman teacher failed on Tuesday in an attempt to persuade a German court that it was allowable to wear a Muslim headscarf if she wore it in the style of the late screen siren Grace Kelly.
The teacher, who was Christian but converted to Islam in the early 1990s, challenged a ban imposed on teachers in June last year by the authorities of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The woman argued that if she wore the headscarf in the style of Grace Kelly in the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film "To Catch a Thief", in other words pushed back with hair showing at the front, she was not infringing the ban.
But a court in the state capital Duesseldorf rejected her claim.
The judges ruled that Grace Kelly only wore a headscarf occasionally in the film and mainly in scenes in a convertible car, while the teacher was wearing it every day for religious reasons.
A woman teacher failed on Tuesday in an attempt to persuade a German court that it was allowable to wear a Muslim headscarf if she wore it in the style of the late screen siren Grace Kelly.
The teacher, who was Christian but converted to Islam in the early 1990s, challenged a ban imposed on teachers in June last year by the authorities of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The woman argued that if she wore the headscarf in the style of Grace Kelly in the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film "To Catch a Thief", in other words pushed back with hair showing at the front, she was not infringing the ban.
But a court in the state capital Duesseldorf rejected her claim.
The judges ruled that Grace Kelly only wore a headscarf occasionally in the film and mainly in scenes in a convertible car, while the teacher was wearing it every day for religious reasons.
posted by jillosophy at 8/14/2007 02:07:00 PM
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