The Jewish Community of Denmark does not support proposals to ban the hijab and has issued a press release

The Jewish Community of Denmark (Det jødiske Samfund) issued a press release in response to the “Committee for the Struggle of Forgotten Women,” which proposed banning religious headscarves in public and private primary schools (from grade zero to grade nine) in Denmark. The press release stated: “Each of us can decide whether we want to be religious or not. It is not the state’s job to impose religiosity or secularism on the heads of citizens. This also applies to the way you choose to dress.”.

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“The committee categorizes all veiled girls as victims of their families who need to be respected in social circles,” said Dietz Judsky Samfund in the press release. “This is an absolutely unreasonable stigmatization of Muslim girls and their families.”.