December 25, 2015
The Swiss Federal Court has voted 4-1 to void a law in the canton (state) of St. Gallen that forbade the wearing of Islamic headscarves in the canton’s schools. The court said a ban on headscarves was not a prerequisite for good education. Judge Aubry Girardin said the wearing of a headscarf does not make a student either rude or undisciplined.