The Government: Investigation on school bans not applicable

Anna Ekström thinks that a ban on hauling is "a very big step", she tells Dagens Nyheter.

- I don't want any woman to be forced to put on a veil. And I definitely don't want the school to help girls or women get pressure to wear different forms of religious clothing, such as veil. But freedom of religion is extremely important in Sweden, she tells the newspaper.

She believes that it is difficult to distinguish who wants and does not want to wear a veil, and wants society to take action against those who force women.

In the so-called January agreement, it is stated that the school's work against honor repression should be strengthened, and Anna Ekström points to the school's role in preventing it.

- Experience shows that young girls and boys who are victims of honor violence or oppression often turn to their teacher, curator or school nurse. I want the school to be a safe environment where students who are exposed to this venerable oppression can turn with confidence, she says.

Among the Moderates' arguments for investigating a veil ban in school is that one makes a difference between boys and girls when girls are allowed to wear a veil. To DN, Anna Ekström says that gender equality is an important goal, and that curriculum and school law should apply equally to everyone.

- The main rule is that the choice of attire is an individual act, something that a student largely decides for himself, she says.

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