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Original Title: A German Muslim woman has been barred from working as a lay judge because she wears a headscarf which was alleged to be in violation of the requirement of neutrality. The matter is now before the constitutional court
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 2 years ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The regional court ruled that any religious symbols worn by the lay judge during a trial would violate the state’s requirement of neutrality.
It described it as a dilemma, a “collision between the fundamentally protected practice of religion and the state’s requirements of neutrality when exercising the office of lay judge.”
She also said a lay judge wearing a head covering would reflect the diversity of society, thereby increasing social acceptance of court rulings.
Sarah Lincoln, a lawyer for Society for Civil Rights (GFF), a non-governmental organization financed through donations and membership fees, has a similar view.
The Muslim lay judge now fighting in Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court is a trained teacher who lectures on religiously motivated extremism, antisemitism and racism.
That very same year, her state of North-Rhine-Westphalia passed a blanket ban on teachers’ expression of religious beliefs in public schools.
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