(Yle) Since the start of the school year, Muslim students’ headscarves have become a political topic of conversation.
On Tuesday, Social Security Minister Sanni Grahn-Laasonen (NCP) said in a social media post that the use of burkas and niqabs that cover the face [is] not suitable in Finnish schools.
Pia Jardi, secretary general of the Muslim Forum of Finland, thinks that raising the issue of schoolchildren wearing face coverings seems silly in Finland. According to her, hardly anyone in Finland wears the burka, and the discussion about the use of niqabs, especially in primary and secondary schools, seems exaggerated.
“I have never seen children wearing niqabs in Finland,” Jardi told Yle.
