re: #659 SanFranciscoZionist

I judge ‘concessions’ based on how disruptive they are to the community. The girls wearing scarves was no problem to anyone. Big shrug.

As for ‘one concession leading to asking for another one’, it didn’t, not at all. The Afghani parents had exactly one need from the school, which was that their daughters be allowed to wear scarves and long sleeves and sweatpants under their gym clothes.

We’d been doing this for years. It worked fine. No one’s toes or rights were being stepped on.

A concession like that I have no problem with. But some practices identified with Islam, such as bad treatment of women, I have a major problem with. I use the word “identified” because I do think them integral to Islam, and so I think a compromise is possible.