(European Conservative) A civil rights association has filed a lawsuit against a Berlin high school for prohibiting prayer rooms, arguing that the policy discriminates against Muslim students. The Society for Civil Rights (GFF) filed the action on October 16th, citing state anti-discrimination law.
According to the school’s regulations, the “demonstrative practice of religious rites” is banned “in the interest of maintaining school peace.”
GFF claims that this restriction disproportionately affects Muslim students, who are prevented from performing Islamic prayers on school grounds. Legal expert Soraia Da Costa Batista, speaking for the NGO, said: “If Muslim students have to hide in toilets and bushes to pray for fear of being reprimanded, this is a profound infringement of their fundamental rights.”
