The Svendborg city council did not vote on a headscarf ban for girls under 18 yesterday. The person who submitted the proposal, Medhat Khattab, says that he saw before the meeting that his colleagues wanted to boycott the proposal and therefore he dropped it.

Khattab says he doesn't know whether they just don't want to get involved or if they want to profit, but that nobody warmed up to the subject. He says that they're abandoning the schools.

Instead he decided to change his proposal to say that small girls in public schools wearing a headscarf can damage integration. The council refused to vote on it, saying that an attitude cannot be voted upon. Khattab will now check whether that is legal.

The suggestion to ban headscarves in schools got support from the Social Democrats, Conservatives and Danish People's Party who want to bring it up in parliament. The Danish prime minister Rasmussen criticized the proposal and said that dress guidelines should be decided by every individual school and parents.

Source: BT, DR (Danish)