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Headscarf ban not against freedom of religion right according to EHCR (www.vrt.be)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Daily reminder that religion ≠ race

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It's intersectional.

It was coined in 1989 by professor Kimberlé Crenshaw to describe how race, class, gender, and other individual characteristics “intersect” with one another and overlap.

[Edit: Even tho race is not a scientific thing anymore, we had this narrative for so long that the term is still in use. At least it is used as a social construct. And we struggle as societies with racism. Still]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

So?

Religion is a choice, an unverifiable one at that. There is no reason that such a choice should grant special privileges that someone non-religious, or of another religion would not be granted. Each such request must stand on its own merit.

In Europe the concept of freedom from religion is something that many different cultures have fought hard for - secularism.