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• German court overturns ban on headscarves for Muslim women teachers
• Germany says Muslim teachers can wear headscarf unless disruptive
• German high court overturns headscarf ban for teachers
• Seattle school bus hit by air gun first mistaken for bullets

German court overturns ban on headscarves for Muslim women teachers Posted: 13 Mar 2015 10:45 AM PDT By Stephen Brown BERLIN (Reuters) - Muslim women teachers can wear headscarves as long as it does not cause disruption in school, Germany's top court said in a ruling that overturns an earlier ban and may fuel debate about what some nationalist groups see as creeping "Islamization". The Constitutional Court struck down its own 2003 ban on headscarves for teachers, which had led some German states to forbid Muslim headscarves in schools while permitting the use of Christian symbols such as crucifixes and nuns' habits. The court in Karlsruhe, ruling on a case brought by a Muslim woman blocked from a teaching job because of her headscarf, said religious symbols could only be banned when they posed "not just an abstract but a concrete risk of disruption in schools". "This is a good day for religious freedom," said Volker Beck, a lawmaker from the opposition Greens.

Germany says Muslim teachers can wear headscarf unless disruptive Posted: 13 Mar 2015 06:34 AM PDT Germany's top court said Friday that Muslim teachers can wear the Islamic headscarf in class as long as it doesn't disrupt school activities, in a ruling likely to revive emotional debate. The Constitutional Court said Muslim teachers in state schools could no longer face a blanket ban on the headscarf, effectively revising its 2003 decision that left the door open to it being barred. Judges at the Karlsruhe-based court in southwest Germany said a ban could only be justified if the wearing of the Islamic headscarf led to a "sufficiently concrete danger" of disruption in the school, or of "state neutrality". Since 2003 several of Germany's 16 regional states, which are responsible for education, have banned teachers wearing the Muslim headscarf following the top court's initial ruling.

German high court overturns headscarf ban for teachers Posted: 13 Mar 2015 04:25 AM PDT BERLIN (AP) — Germany's highest court on Friday struck down a state law banning teachers from wearing headscarves as unconstitutional, saying it violates the right to religious freedom.

Seattle school bus hit by air gun first mistaken for bullets Posted: 12 Mar 2015 05:35 PM PDT By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - A school bus arriving outside a Seattle elementary school on Thursday was struck by rounds fired by a BB gun initially mistaken for gunfire, prompting a lockdown of the school and a search for suspects, but no one was hurt, city police and school officials said. The bus driver heard loud noises, then saw that two windows in the vehicle and took shelter inside the school, Seattle Public Schools spokeswoman Stacy Howard said. The Seattle Police Department later said the bus appeared to have been struck by BB rounds fired from an air gun, rather than actual bullets, though the incident remained under investigation. There also were unconfirmed reports of a group of teenagers playing in the area with a BB gun shortly before the bus was hit, police said.

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