Dutch lawmakers say no to police officers wearing headscarves

RT reports:

Six Dutch political parties are against a proposal by Amsterdam’s key police official to discuss allowing female Muslim police forces to wear headscarves, according to Dutch media.

The official, Commissioner Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, told the daily tabloid Algemeen Dagblad on Thursday that “Amsterdam's population is changing in terms of its [ethnical] make-up” and suggested that the issue should be debated.

Also, he urged boosting multiculturalism among Amsterdam's police, underlining that some 52 percent of Amsterdam’s locals are of a non-Dutch background. However, he proceeded, this diversity isn’t reflected in the police forces, with just 18 percent of the agents having non-Dutch roots.

Aalbersberg’s proposal also included letting police officers wear religious symbols such as crosses and Jewish yarmulkes.

Standards.