Austria will ban girls from wearing Islamic headscarves in school, saying they are ‘a sign of oppression’ that create ‘feelings of shame’

November 25, 2025

Daily Mail: State Secretary Jorg Leichtfried and Integration Minister Claudia Plakolm presented the details of the ban on Thursday.

‘A headscarf on an 11-year-old girl is and remains a sign of oppression,’ Plakolm said. ‘Girls develop feelings of shame, they get a distorted body image, an unstable sense of self-worth…