Source: Gulf Times
On July 9, 2006 the Gulf Times reported, "A German state’s ban on women teachers wearing Muslim headscarves has been ruled void by a court. A German state’s ban on women teachers wearing Muslim headscarves has been ruled void by a court. The Baden-Wuerttemberg administrative tribunal ruled on Friday that the state had no right to order a 55-year-old German woman who has been Muslim since 1984 to teach bareheaded. Judges said this was discriminatory, because Baden-Wuerttemberg did not require Catholic nuns to teach in public schools without veils. The state had argued that teachers in public schools had to demonstrate political and religious neutrality. The plaintiff has taught since 1973 in a combined primary and secondary school where 60% of the pupils are non-German."