The Dutch News website reports that a Catholic secondary school in Volendam, the Netherlands, is within its rights to ban pupils from wearing Islamic headscarves, as a result of an Amsterdam appeal court ruling today (September 6, 2011).
The school introduced the ban several months after Imane Mahssan had requested permission to wear a headscarf and had begun doing so. She was then banned from attending classes.
The girl's father took the case to the Equal Opportunity Commission, which ruled in the girl's favor.
The school ignored the Commission's ruling, prompting the girl's father to take the case to court. The court ruled that the school can set standards to uphold its own values.
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