A legal opinion commissioned by the Islamic Religious Community in Austria has found that a planned regulation banning girls under 14 from wearing headscarves in schools is unconstitutional.
The 21-page report, published Tuesday on the group’s website, said the rule – set to take effect in September – violates the principle of religious and ideological neutrality.
According to a 21-page report published on Tuesday on the Muslim representative body’s website, the rule set to take effect in schools in September violates the principle of religious and ideological neutrality.
The Islamic Religious Community had already announced, following the Austrian Parliament’s vote, that it would challenge the law before the Constitutional Court.
The legal opinion was prepared by Markus Vasek, head of the Department of Legal Protection and Administrative Control at Johannes Kepler University Linz.
