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Here in Germany they are trying to stop the girls from wearing them in school, naturally its making a very big issue, with having to do with racialism, there saying its unfair. There are lots of Turkish people here, but strangely enough in Turkey they don�t wear them there, so why do they insist on wearing them here. I�m not racist i have a wide variety of friends, and my Turkish friends don�t bother me when they have there head gear on, it�s part of there believes, the people need to learn to except it like it or not.

This is a complex issue. All the Q'ran says is that women must dress 'modestly' with no definite "headscarf rule". The roots of the headscarf and more extreme forms of body covering go back to pre-Islamic times.

These days various groups, for diverse reasons, are trying to impose a specific dress code to emphasise national identity or as a mark of a particular religion. So we can expect this topic to be in the news for some time yet.