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European governments are discriminating against their Muslim citizens, denying them the right to wear their hijab and build their worship places, an international human rights group said.
\u201cMuslim women are being denied jobs and girls prevented from attending regular classes just because they wear traditional forms of dress, such as the headscarf,\u201d Marco Perolini, Amnesty International\u2019s expert on discrimination, said in a report on Tuesday, April 24.
\u201cMen can be dismissed for wearing beards associated with Islam.\u201d
The London-based group said several European countries have made policy decisions in recent years that discriminate against their Muslim citizens.
The report, titled “Choice and Prejudice: Discrimination Against Muslims in Europe,” singles out Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland for particular criticism.
It cites bans on face-veils and other religious symbols in schools as being among the most damaging measures.
“Rather than countering these prejudices, political parties and public officials are all too often pandering to them in their quest for votes,” Perolini said.
\u201cThere is a groundswell of opinion in many European countries that Islam is alright and Muslims are ok so long as they are not too visible. This attitude is generating human rights violations and needs to be challenged.\u201d
Citing numerous individual cases of discrimination across Europe, Amnesty said Muslim pupils have been denied over the past decade the right to wear hijab and other religious and traditional dress at school in many countries including Spain, France, Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
\u201cAny restriction on the wearing of religious and cultural symbols and dress in schools must be based on assessment of the needs in each individual case,\u201d Perolini said.
\u201cGeneral bans risk adversely Muslims girls\u2019 access to education and violating their rights to freedom of expression and to manifest their beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Amnesty said denying European Muslims jobs for their beliefs were in violation with anti-discrimination legislation in Europe.
\u201cEU legislation prohibiting discrimination on the ground of religion or belief in the area of employment seems to be toothless across Europe, as we observe a higher rate of unemployment among Muslims, and especially Muslim women of foreign origin,\u201d Perolini said.
In France in 2009, the employment rate of women holding French citizenship was 60.9 percent. The rate for Moroccan women in the country was 25.6 percent and for Turkish women 14.7 percent.
In the Netherlands in 2006, the employment rate of women of Turkish and Moroccan origin was 31 and 27 percent respectively, compared with a rate of 56 percent for Dutch women who are not from ethnic minorities.
Muslims were also denied the right to establish proper places of worship across the European content, despite state obligations to protect, respect and fulfill the freedom of religion which includes the right to worship collectively in adequate places.
Amnesty said since 2010, the Swiss Constitution violated international obligations, specifically targeting Muslims with the prohibition of the construction of minarets.
In Catalonia (Spain), Muslims have to pray in outdoor spaces because existing prayer rooms are too small to accommodate all the worshippers, the report said.
Requests to build mosques for Catalonia Muslims are being disputed as incompatible with the respect of Catalan traditions and culture, Amnesty said.
Amnesty termed restrictions on European Muslims as a violation of human rights.
\u201cWearing religious and cultural symbols and dress is part of the right of freedom of expression. It is part of the right to freedom of religion or belief \u2013 and these rights must be enjoyed by all faiths equally,\u201d Perolini said.
\u201cWhile everyone has the right to express their cultural, traditional or religious background by wearing a specific form of dress no one should be pressurized or coerced to do so.
\u201cGeneral bans on particular forms of dress that violate the rights of those freely choosing to dress in a particular way are not the way to do this.\u201d

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