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[–] Killing_Spark@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure. My point being more along the lines of respecting the institution. If there’s certain rules set, one should abide by them, no matter what religion. [ ... ] Crosses as well, but they tend to be condoned, and in that lies the mistake.

I guess but you cant fault people to try to get around the rules if other people are allowed to get around them. You yourself say that that is the original issue, so I don't think only adressing the abayas is a good way to go about things, it's at most fighting the symptoms.

Kippas are banned as well I'd be surprised if that is enforced, but I have a german viewpoint on this and we tend to be a bit touchier with restricting jewish habits than other countries. So it could very well be that only christians get to wear their crosses.

One interesting thing would be the traditional hair style jewish males might display. I'm honestly interested where you stand on that. Or lets take the face tatoos that some people of indigenous heritage might display. Just things that aren't easily changed or hidden. What would you do about that? I know the face tatoos are a thing that isn't likely to be an issue because they are rare but I wanted to give another example besides hair styles.

Ideaogically I’m in agreement. I mean wearing a bad religion shirt is ok in my book, hell even a Charlie Hebdo Mohammed pic would be ok for me

This strikes me as a bit odd. You don't want to allow people showing that they belong to a certain religion but you want to allow people to openly criticise peoples religions? It's still communication about religion but just in a different way right?

but the murder of Samuel Paty shows that those aren’t the same. I think that last part weighs in on this whole discussion.

I agree that extremistic views and actions of extremists are weighing on this discussion, and I'd agree that islamists are currently the bigger immediate threat, compared to other extreme religious groups. But I think we all should make a concient effort to separate violent extremists from normal religious people. The vast majority of muslims are peaceful people just like the vast majority of christians and atheists are peaceful people.