Austrian Govt Criticizes Headscarf Advice for Muslim Women

From Associated Press via US News

VIENNA (AP) — Austrian government officials are criticizing a recommendation by the country’s Islamic leaders that Muslim women wear a headscarf with the onset of puberty.

Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, who also is the country’s integration minister, says the stance is “an attack on the freedom and self-determination of women.” State Secretary Maria Duzdar says such restrictions on the freedom of women are “unacceptable.”

Austrian media reported their comments Monday in reaction to a recommendation by the Islamic Community. The organization says the final decision is a woman’s to make and criticizes what it says is political interference into religious affairs.

The Austrian government has prohibited full-face veils in courts, schools and other “public places” and banned police officers, judges, magistrates and public prosecutors from wearing headscarves earlier this year.

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