e forced to kill their favorite sister.
One of the unsettling truths about Hatin’s death [described earlier in the article] and the plight of many Muslim women is that it took the comments of three Turkish boys and the outrage of a male school director to get people to notice. When the murder first happened, it sent no shock waves through the mainstream German press. It only became big news when a group of 14-year-old Turkish boys mocked Hatin during a class discussion at a school near the crime scene. One boy said, “She only had herself to blame,” while another insisted, “She deserved what she got. The whore lived like a German.” The enraged school director not only sent a letter home to parents, but also to teachers across Germany. The letter ignited a media fury. Less known, however, is that the letter also hit a nerve among educators. “Teachers from across the country wrote back saying they had had similar experiences,” Boehmecke said. They reported Turkish boys taunting Turkish girls who don’t wear headscarves as “German sluts.” “That’s the part no one has written about. Clearly there is huge potential for similar violence across Germany,” Boehmecke said. “Not just in the big cities, but all over. It’s a problem many politicians haven’t been willing to face.”
One of the reasons given by Denbigh School in Luton for their ban on the jilbab was that it would create pressure on other girl pupils, who could then be seen as somehow less devout.
The school argued that other Muslim girls relied on the protection of the uniform policy to resist pressure in the community to adopt the jilbab.
Oh well.
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