From: Jonathan Davis (jonathan@limbicnutrition.com)
Date: Sat Dec 13 2003 - 08:05:52 MST
Laïcité, Egalité, Fraternité - (Secularism, Equality, Fraternity) (Op-Ed)
"Lila and Alma Levy are two girls of high-school age from Aubervilliers, France who, in most countries, would probably not attract much attention to themselves. Like millions of other young women, they choose to wear a Muslim headscarf as an expression of their faith[1]. However, the two girls live in France, a secular country which does not tolerate any sign of religious expression in public places which might jeopardise their notion of laïcité (state atheism practised as an evangelical religion) and is moving towards a ban on the wearing of all visible religious emblems in public schools and possibly hospitals.[2]. Consequently, the two sisters have been told not to return to the Lycée Henri Wallon (high school); the pretext for this decision being that they are causing a disturbance by coming to school wearing veils."
Read on http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/12/12/153149/40
Regards
Jonathan
http://www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/
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