Religious Accessories Should Not Be Banned Essay

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Religious accessories? Should they be banned?

It is a well-known fact that religion and workplaces often produce conflicts and so employers usually want their workplaces to be secular but violation of people’s basic human rights is not acceptable and banning religious accessories is a violation of people’s fundamental human rights. After all we work to live but we do not live to work. People often tend to forget that religious attire might not be an accessory at all it might be something that people should wear maybe it is something people wear so that they can maintain their links to who they are or where they come from with the recent hate wave across Europe where France and Turkey have banned the hijab one might come across the thought

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