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\"jerusalem\"OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: On 22 May, 2010, the Schmidt Girls School in East Jerusalem\u00a0 flagrantly fired a Palestinian female teacher, Nadera al Nimmari, reportedly for wearing a headscarf.<\/div>\n

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According to news reports, the school principal and his secretary escorted al-Nimmari to the school\u2019s outer gate, telling her that she could be reinstated only if she removes the headscarf off her head.
Humiliated and emotionally tormented,\u00a0 al-Nimmari left her school, not understanding what was going on.
In Jerusalem itself, the incident has been viewed as an expression of\u00a0 sheer hatred\u00a0 of\u00a0 and fanaticism against Islam by an institution which claims to promote interreligious tolerance.
In its website (http:\/\/www.heilig-land-verein.de\/engl\/html\/about_us.html), the German Association of the Holy Land, the mother organization catering for the Schmidt School, boasts of \u201cpromoting dialogue and reconciliation among the different religions.\u201d
However, it is amply clear that the abrupt and unceremonious sacking of a teacher of 27 years\u00a0 because of her religion is an act of religious intolerance to put it very mildly.
The Schmidt school administration\u00a0 claims that al-Nimmari has not been completely dismissed and that she could always return, but without wearing the headscarf, a religious Islamic obligation upon all practicing Muslim women past the age of puberty.
Needless to say, the unfair and provocative decision to sack a teacher because of her religion is already drawing angry reactions in the Arab community in East Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied territories.
These reactions are understandable and legitimate\u00a0 since the repulsive act is being\u00a0 viewed as an expression of hate against the Islamic faith.
Indeed, for many Palestinians, the manifestly illegal firing of a woman teacher who has spent half of her life teaching at the German school constitutes the moral equivalent of a declaration of war on Islam at least within the confines of that school. Needless to say, this is totally unacceptable.
Some students at the school, both Christian and Muslim, have questioned the clearly vindictive behavior on the part of the School administrator, Nicolas Kirscher.
One student was quoted as asking \u201cwhy this man doesn\u2019t ask the nuns to take off their own headscarves as he has asked our teacher to do so?\u201d
Nabil Zuheiman, father of\u00a0 two students at the Schmidt school, described the decision to fire the Muslim teacher, al Nimmari, as symbolizing\u00a0 the decapitation of\u00a0 tolerance and multi-culturalism\u201d at the school.
\u201cIt is a sharp blow to respect of religious beliefs.\u201d
\u201cI respect the Catholic identity of the Schmidt school, this is why I decided to admit my daughters to school. However, this draconian decision takes the school back to the time of the inquisition. Sorry, this is not the Catholic Church that respects people\u2019s religious beliefs.\u201d
The mother of one student was quoted by the Maan News Agency\u00a0 as saying that \u201cthis decision is sending the wrong message to the students, that there is\u00a0 discrimination at the school based on religion.
\u201cThey are also trying to send a tacit message, saying\u00a0 ‘don\u2019t you\u00a0 even think of wearing the scarf in the future.’\u201d
Another mother, named Jumana Nasseruddin, said : \u201cI am a graduate of this school so are my daughters. I would like to remind the principal that the Fourth Geneva Convention outlawed discrimination on the basis of religion and color of skin. Hence the administration is creating religious discrimination and finding a rift between Christians and Muslims.\u201d
I strongly believe that the decision to fire al-Nimmari was in no way an uncalculated decision. Things just don\u2019t happen this way. There must have\u00a0 been a deep sense of intolerance and hostility against the Islamic faith on the part of whoever took this unfortunate decision.
In that sense, the decision reflects and epitomizes a really grave problem. In the final analysis, a hater of Islam can\u2019t remain a principal of a school the majority of whose students are Muslims.
Palestinians, like this writer, have a long experience with missionary schools, some which appeared more than 130 years ago. The Schmidt School was established in 1886, during the Ottoman era.
However, the enduring continuity of these schools has always been maintained thanks to a carefully-observed modus Vivendi whereby school administrations kept a safe distance from religiously sensitive matters, including interference in religious issues such as telling Muslim students and employees\u00a0 what or what not to wear, or banning headscarves or ridiculing or vilifying Islamic religious symbols and customs.
To our chagrin, and to its own detriment, the Schmidt School is now violating these timeless red lines.
We hope and pray that the German Association of the Holy Land will immediately correct this\u00a0 unfortunate mistake.<\/p>\n

By Khalid Amayreh (PIC)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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