Anti Semitism in France

Owl, your post clarifies a lot of things except that, you say you disagree with me on one point, but I don't see where the disagreement is...
[!--QuoteBegin--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]On this point, Onhell, I have to disagree.
There had been a huge (national) debate on that subject in France last year. There has been a law saying that any obvious sign of religion shouldn't been allowed at school. Sure enough, that law aimed mainly at Muslims because of the way girls and women are dressed when they follow the strict "dress code" of this religion. And sure enough, it has been a way to undermine Islam in France.
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you only seem to reafirm what I was saying...
 
[!--QuoteBegin-huxley+Apr 21 2005, 02:31 AM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(huxley @ Apr 21 2005, 02:31 AM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]hi all,

let me tell you one thing, 7th son is right about Arabs and berbes
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Hello mate

Thx for the post but it's 7th Death... nah, just forget, it's the same ! [!--emo&:P--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/tongue.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'tongue.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
[!--QuoteBegin-7th Death of a 7th Death+Apr 21 2005, 09:18 AM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(7th Death of a 7th Death @ Apr 21 2005, 09:18 AM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]Hello mate

Thx for the post but it's 7th Death... nah, just forget, it's the same ! [!--emo&:P--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/tongue.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'tongue.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
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sorry about that maty [!--emo&:blush:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/blush.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'blush.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
[!--QuoteBegin--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]Muslim Children are prohibited to wear their traditional dress to school because it is seen as an eye-sore and as an open rejection to their "Frenchness"[/quote]
Well, I think it is more a question of religion than nationality.
Also, your sentence was very strong and I tried to nuance it. Hope I did... but obviously...
 
Ok I got this e-mail from my Sociology Professor, thought it relevant to what the discussion was about:

"To date, 47 girls have been excluded from their schools. Some 550 have been
pressured into removing their head scarves, and many hundreds have chosen to
leave school and attempt to complete their education through correspondence
courses. Some, for which there are no statistics, have just given up. Three
Sikh boys have also been excluded from school for insisting on covering their
hair.

Mothers wearing the veil have been prevented from accompanying children on
school trips. Veiled women have been banned from public buildings, and their
right to work in public and even private enterprises has increasingly been
challenged."

The article was from www.wsws.org (the World Socialist Web Site), so take the
report with a grain of salt (i.e. I'd feel better if this was from the
Independent or Observer or Le Monde or another respectable European paper, but
I haven't seen any numbers published by them). The full article (called
?Secularism? and hypocrisy: official France mourns pope and bans Muslim
scarf) is linked to the front page of the website, at least today, for those
who want to read the rest of this opinion piece.
 
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