The top European Union court ruled on Tuesday that public authorities in member states can prohibit employees from wearing signs of religious belief, such as an Islamic head scarf, in the latest decision on an issue that has divided Europe for years.
The case came to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) after an employee of the eastern Belgian municipality of Ans was told she could not wear an Islamic head scarf at work.
I mean, the earliest settlers of America left Europe because they were doing shit like this 500 years ago.
Some of them. The Puritans of Massachusetts wanted to establish a theocracy and persecute one another. The Quakers of Pennsylvania actually did want to escape religious persecution, though.
OK, except for the group of people who accused people of being witches, many of the earliest settlers in America left Europe to escape religious persecution.
Well no, not many. A few. Economic opportunity was a pretty big motivator too.
I mean, most of New England was settled by English people who didn’t like the church of England. Maryland was settled by Catholics. Massachusetts by Puritans. Quakers in Pennsylvania.
I’m confused. Maryland and Pennsylvania are not in New England.
Parts of New England were settled by people escaping Puritan persecution in Massachusetts; notably Rhode Island.
Except the ones who were starting tobacco plantations. And the ones who burned women for witchcraft. And the ones looking for El Dorado.
The tobacco plantations weren’t started by the earliest settlers.
Salem witch trials weren’t until ~1690s.
The Spaniards looking for the seven cities of gold landed down around Mexico, which was then called New Spain. I wouldn’t really consider them to be settlers of America the country. Maybe I should have made the distinction that I was not talking about the American continents.
I didn’t mean to call you out. I was just joking around. I’ve always thought it was funny that we highlight the people seeking religious freedom and just slip under the rug that we were also founded by corporations forcing slaves to make cigarettes.