Bans on full-face veils in France and Belgium and a failure by other European countries to stop employers from enforcing informal dress codes means Muslim women are being denied jobs and education, Amnesty International has said.
In a wide-ranging report highlighting examples of discrimination against Muslims across Europe, Amnesty said on Tuesday that governments were pandering to prejudices by stopping Muslim women from wearing full-face veils and urged France and Belgium to repeal their own bans on such veils.
“Muslim women are being denied jobs and girls prevented from attending regular classes just because they wear traditional forms of dress,” said Amnesty researcher Marco Perolini. “Rather than countering these prejudices, political parties and public officials are all too often pandering to them in their quest for votes.” [Reuters Blogs - FaithWorld] Read more
