A Muslim student has been racially insulted by a university professor in Germany because she was wearing a headscarf, her lawyer says
It was the latest in a string of anti-Muslim incidents and hate crimes in Germany, particularly affecting women wearing Islamic covers. / Photo: AA
"Article 4 of the German Constitution protects religious freedom, and a student can attend lessons by wearing a headscarf. The attitude of this professor is absolutely unacceptable," her lawyer Fatih Zingal said on Monday. The incident occurred during an economics class at the campus of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg university in northwestern Germany.
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