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EU states can ban religious symbols in public workplaces (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by CAVOK@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] taladar@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if a workplace starts demanding everyone to work in a bikini would this be acceptable?

If the workplace is a bikini modelling agency or a beach bar probably yes. Most of those are not run by governments though.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

France recently banned the Abaya from schools which is just a long dress.

If only short dresses are allowed in schools because "we need to ban religion" then following this exact logic they could just ban all dresses next.

Following that just make all girls go to school in bikinis because "religious people wear clothes".

In Africa there's tribes with women who aren't even wearing anything on their chest because that's where those women believe the line should be. From a secular point of view would you also accept it if teenage girls started going to school without clothes?

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

It is dishonest to claim the Abaya is "just a long dress" or the headscarf is just an accessory. Maybe it can be worn someday in the future like that. But right now it is a religious symbol and people wear it because of specific cultural and religious beliefs. It's that what the law is targeting.

And maybe also in the future people can go naked wherever they like. But right now, we are not there yet but we already understand that it is not right to indoctrinate people into believing women have to go to great lengths to hide their bodies and if they don't do that they are less "chaste".