Wearing a hijab, needed to express this!

Just need to be written, I am so sick of this debate!

What harm will a few sweet girls covering their hair at school do? How is it any irritation or problem for anyone? We are talking hijab, and we are talking at school. The debate is about not allowing these kids to cover up their hair.

Doing a hypothetical her...
Growing up being a Muslim, lets say at 8 years old. Mariam asks her father why she suddenly can not wear hijab at school anymore, this is their way and why is it suddenly wrong? (Well, there are many arguments her about what this symbolizes for women etc. But this is another part of the discussion!)
Well, what can her father say? One possible reaction is a feeling of not being respected for the religion they have. He might express this to his daughter, that he thinks that this western country that - values individuality and speaks about integration - lacks any respect for the way they have been brought up and the religion in which they believe!
Eight years old, respect is still in a part abstract. But it might now represent the value in this girls believes(should she feel shame??), and also - in what she observes - that this country do not respect her parents, her religion or her family. This country which she is born, this country that is a part of where this girl will discover her identity!

Adolescence: What reason does this girl have to respect this country that shows this kind of disrespect for so many aspects of her person? Think for one minute how your period as an adolescence were! AND, now think of the things you might have done or you might have felt being in YOUR OWN country feeling stigmatized (as this rule would come from the state, it is truly stigmatizing!!). Not managing to build up an identity, torn between your religion and motherland and the country where you are born and raised! Why would this girl want to integrate and be a part of the great mass of people voting for politicians that raises and decides this issue??? What happens in this period of this girls life is the foundation of her life! Shouldn't this foundation include respect from her country. I have at least always been thought that you get what you give. Give respect and you get respect!

I don't know! My example is pushing it a bit, but I still think it is not that far fetched (thus, using it as an example!!). There are not many girls at Emily's school wearing a hijab, but the few I know from her school are the sweetest little girls. They look like they come from nice capable families and even manage at school(with this handicap!)... BUT, they do wear a hijab that could really ruin the esthetics's around the school yard *ironic*. Yes, we should have opinions. Topics should be on the agenda, all topics I guess (could mention a certain critics award a year ago or so, but will let this rest!). But turn the coin, find a new topic! And to many people are using their prejudices voices in this debate, pretending it is all about their concerns about women's rights or even claiming it is a problem of identifying perpetrators robbing a place if wearing a burka (come on... can you even pretend to hide racism behind such a claim!!!??) Yes, someone wearing a burka robbed a bank in France, do we see this as a global returning problem?
At least I do not =)

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)