Why can't kids read there bibles for lunch, but muslim girls can wear their head scarves?

Question

And at my school a boy had to go home and change his shirt because he had a shirt with bible scriptures on the back of it. I

Isn't that wrong while at the same school muslim girls can wear their head scarves?

Is this just another sign of the end of times?

No it didn't have scriptures that doesn't change anything and that doesn't prove the difference why can people read almost any book they want in school except the bible

"atheist" how can you tell me you are free to do it when they made him change his shirt?

Answer 1

Did the girl's scarf have any writings from the Quran on it? There's the difference.

It does make a difference. You can't compare a shirt with biblical scripture to a girl who's just wearing a scarf. If you start discriminating on her wearing the scarf then how will you be able to tell when other girls wear scarfs if it's because they're muslim or not.

Answer 2

Ok. To answer that question.

Head scarves are a tradition. A T shirt is not. The girl is wearing the head scarve for personal reasons. The kid with the t-shirt is just trying to put his view on other people.

If he had been sent home for reading his bible. I'd call foul. However he got sent home for being a jerk. Your faith is for your self. Not for your clothing. If I wanted to i could wear a leather tunic and boots, with a leather belt and all sorts of viking apparel. Thats tradition. A T shirt with verse splattered on it is not.


Clothing tradition is a choice. If you wanted you could wear a head scarf. or a robe. or something similar.

They sent the kid with the T shirt home for the same reason they would send home a kid with a swastika on his shirt. One is imposition. The other is just tradition.


and I know as a fact that schools mostly DONT do this unless the scripture is offensive. My friend wore shirts with scripture on them all the time. He was called in on it, but after examination of the passage he was let go with a simple warning not to choose offensive scripture.

Answer 3

Actually, the two aren't comparable. It's hard to dig up a legit analogy. If a kid wears a shirt with the cross or ten commandments on it, that is an overt religious statement, so no go on that one either. Christians haven't said wearing any item of clothing was required, so there will be no exact matches. But what is overtly Muslim about a piece of cloth on your head? I think it's likely that if a Christian girl decided, out of modesty, to wear cloth over her head, she'd be made to choose between removing it or going home. And all the school officials could come up with is that, because she wasn't a Muslim, it constituted a hat of sorts, and not a head covering. Yeah, that would be inconsistent. But that isn't the specific case you give as an example, is it?

I'd like the kids to be able to read during lunch. But let's put the shoe on the other foot. -- If Muslims insisted on reading the koran aloud during lunch, that would offend and incense me as a Christian, and I wouldn't want any kid of mine having to hear it.

Answer 4

Then Pagans should wear pagan jewelry goths should dress in all black and Christians should be able to read Bibles in school! America is in deep trouble if they go this route. My best advice is dont say anything wrong about that particular religion because the consiquences are fatal. Its too bad the western countries have been weakened. Maybe they will get stronger later.

Answer 5

Wow that stinks, i go to an alternative school (school for kids with truancy, and drug issues, or kids who just want to try and graduate sooner) im one of the few 3 who wants to graduate sooner, i know these kids think they have no future, and nothing to hold onto, so im very open with them about my faith, and i were Christian shirts all of the time, and get asked alot of questions, and i do my best to answer them, and i do read my new testament sometimes, at lunch. but on the other hand, i live in the Bible belt of america, but there should be no discrimination against religion, thats just not right!

Answer 6

I would guess that the biblical inscription on the boys' T-shirt had nothing to do with his being sent home. Are you sure that perhaps T-shirts bearing any logo, insignia or writing are not permitted in school?

You said kids can't read their Bibles during lunch at school. What's up with that compared to the rest of your questions?

Answer 7

there are really some muslimahs who know what is the proper clothing but do not adhere to the principle which only shows their superficial devotion to that religion. It would be the responsibilities of the mutawwah to enforce the right law if there is any. I once talk to a fellow muslim brother to remind his sisters/other relatives not to wear tight fitting clothes and wore a head scarf. It just gives a bad connotation to the whole muslim community. I reckon you consider yourself a former muslim as all creatures are born muslims only the individual choose what they deviated to.

Answer 8

Kids can read their Bibles at lunch.
Do the Muslims girls where scarves with passages from the Koran written on them? Then what are you complaining about? Your attitude is a sign of the end times.

Answer 9

it's a sign that the boy was trying to make an issue of his religion in school. Muslims have always worn their dress,no matter where they are, but I'm betting the kid with the bible doesn't carry his every where.

Answer 10

You are mistaken. You are free to read your Bible at lunch or wear a shirt with a Bible verse on it.