Rome (AFP) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s cabinet adopted a decree law Thursday banning burqas and niqabs in schools and capping the number of students with a poor command of Italian per class.
It introduces “A 30 percent cap on the number of students in a class who do not have an adequate command of Italian, more tools for learning our language, and a ban on the burqa and niqab in schools,” Meloni wrote on social media.
If a child seriously struggles to integrate at school, social services will be called and the parents will be obliged to attend free Italian lessons.
Failure to comply will be punished with a fine of up to 1,000 euros ($1,140).
Italy is a frontline country for migration and integration is a hot campaign issue ahead of next year’s general election.
Save the Children warned forcing children to change schools or enrol in a different institution from their peers simply because of their nationality or limited proficiency in Italian would “create ‘first-class’ and ‘second-class’ students”.
But Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara said “inadequate language proficiency… hinders educational progress”.
“Parental participation in their child’s educational path is fundamental for academic success”, he told journalists.
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Well done Italy.
This should be the rule everywhere. Signs of oppression should have no room in places of education, culture or civilization in general.
Do you even realize Italy is one of the most Catholic countries in the world, with religious symbols everywhere? Will they also force the nuns who are traching to not wear religious clothing?
If it were for me, yes sure! of course! Sadly it’s not, so let me at least enjoy the good-ish news of pushing back one of the fiercest advocate of religious stupidity in this planet ridden by god-fearing haired apes.
And yes, I realize. We have holiday-residence in Sicily. It’s very blatantly obvious everywhere…
Combat signs of oppression… using oppression. Makes perfect sense.
Tolerate the intolerant is the better option? That’s what lead us here. Let me hear your ideas.
That’s literally not what that means. Read the Wikipedia page on the paradox of intolerance and come back.
You’re free to think that. But I won’t.
so we ban things.
But symbols of Roman torture are ok.
Of course not, you smart one. But it’s a start. And your assumptions say a lot.
But what of the Muslim men who are forced to have impure thoughts of the unsheathed Muslim women?
Won’t somebody think of the oppressors???
Oh oops, my bad. I didn’t think of those poor men.
The leftys sticking up for islam makes no sense to me at all. Human rights? Women’s rights? wtf?
Now do the Catholic church.
It’s a tolerance paradox.
Do you accept religious freedoms as an excuse to withdraw women’s rights, or anybodies autonomy?
Is it the states place to determine which is more important to the individual?
Is it appropriate to call out one specific headdress, which directly specifies one religion?
I think a fairer example would be to say no indoor headcoverings or hair accessories larger than 3 inches in any dimension (except for wigs and toupees). No religious exemptions. Absolutely nothing concealing the face without a medical exemption.
That covers burqas, beanies, and baseball caps. Gaiters and ghutrahs. Turbans and taqiyahs. Also covers yamulkes and everything else right on up to the papal tiara.
Thats a fair safety and security measure for a public building, I think. That covers nearly all religions headdresses (which ultimately have no place in a school…we don’t let God in, ergo he can’t judge, right?), as well as anything that could be used to obfuscate a person’s identity (which is one intent of the burqa restriction).
Oh yeah, “absolutely nothing covering the face”, you’re a real advocate for the leftists right to be IDd at protests and rallies so we can be arrested later at home by lazy cops and their facial recognition cameras.
God Internet atheists are such idiots.
The context was in school. But nice try.
Problem: That’s a blatant violation of individual freedom that directly contradicts the fundamental underpinnings of liberal democracy. If you get to ban hijab, conservatives get to ban pride flags. It’s both or neither, which is why freedom of expression is a thing. Turning the state into a tool of enforcing one’s beliefs is a famously risky prospect.
I don’t think they’ve banned the nuns from wearing their religious garb