Swedish Schools Force Child Veiling If Parents Demand It, While Norway Bans Headscarf in Classrooms

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Swedish municipal preschools in so-called “vulnerable areas” may force children to wear Islamic veils if their parents demand it while neighbouring Norway has banned the full-face veil from classrooms.

Swedish Education Minister Gustav Fridolin has expressed outrage at the review of the preschools, carried out by newspaper Göteborgs Posten, saying, “there is still some uncertainty about these issues”, calling the report “worrying”.

According to the newspaper’s review of the schools in the heavily migrant-populated areas, many were willing to bow to religious pressure from parents to the point where one school agreed to let a young girl use facetime during class so she could prove to her parents that she was still wearing her Islamic veil.

Chris Tomlinson
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