Young girls in Austrian elementary schools will no longer be allowed to wear headscarves. Politicians from the coalition government – made up of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s conservative People’s Party and the anti-immigration Freedom Party – reportedly supported the new law on Wednesday evening. The new headscarf ban is likely to face challenges at Austria’s Constitutional Court, Kurz’s party concededSonja Hammerschmidt, the former minister of education, said the ban as an individual measure would not be effective because, after school, the young girls would put the headscarf on again, according to Sky News. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPAustria’s previous government prohibited full-face veils in courts, schools, and other “public places” and banned police officers, judges, magistrates, and public prosecutors from wearing headscarves. Other European countries like France, Belgium and the Netherlands have issued fines in the past for women wearing the burqa, which fully covers their bodies.

Source: Fox News May 16, 2019 13:29 UTC