(Local) The government will not back a motion from the Danish People’s Party (DF) to ban pupils and staff from wearing hijabs in elementary schools, according to the minister for immigration and integration.
The government on Tuesday hit back a proposal from the far-right Danish People’s Party for the parliament to debate a ban on Islamic headscarves in schools.
In a written comment, immigration minister Kaare Dybvad Bek said that while Denmark faces “serious challenges with negative social control and oppression of young girls in certain environments,” such a ban would contravene Danish law.
“It is the legal assessment that the proposal to ban Islamic headscarves in primary schools cannot be implemented within the framework of the Constitution and Denmark’s international obligations,” he wrote.
