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Well, God bless 'em.
I hope they get their way.

What a threatening thing a head scarf is, I cried out in terror the 1st time I saw one. :-(

"I cried out in terror the 1st time I saw one."

Yes, I remember. You even jumped into my arms. The walk home nearly broke my back....ahh, memories.

This is as stupid as our zero tolerance policies in our schools int he US. You know, the policies that get kids expelled for things like aspirin - the dangerous narcotic that it is. I mean really, we can't have kids going around taking stuff for their headaches can we?

Skywalker,
I agree, zero tolerance in schools doenst help anyone, it only teaches kids to be intolerant!

Benny: I'm not sure if intolerant is the word I would use, but we agree on the gist of it! To me it is just mindless and doesn't even bother to think a situation through! I could list story after story, like the national merit scholar who lost her national merit scholarship because after moving with her parents over the weekend, someone spotted a butter knife that fell out of a box in her car. Oh yes, she was also expelled and was not allowed to walk with her graduating class and was almost not allowed to attend her college of choice - at least the college had some sense.

Banning the hijab? It seems stupid to me. They want to prevent terrorism, yet are banning religion. I think this will cause more terrorism, because as you can already see many Muslims have been protesting peacefully. If France bans the hijab, it will turn into violence, not only from Muslims, but mayb other nations.

Oh My Goodness!
It looks like they now plan on banning 'religious' beards as well!!
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4016575/

holy poo... France is geeting out of hand. We need to invade them to prevent ethnic cleansing. Looks like a job NOT for the U.N. since they can't even agree what to have for lunch.

Well, if we wait long enough the Germans will do it for us muddy! ;-)

I hope you're having fun.

Any way, I think this law is useless, present interpretation of the existing laws are sufficient. It's dangerous because it's raising anger in the way expected. Now you have catholic nouns also who get insulted because they visit hospitals... (not many since there are so few left ...)

Still I understand what motivated this law.
God has to be kept outside of school. Any kind of god. School is about knowledge.

ANd bad comes out of good intent. Once again.
well if there was any good intent at the start. Anyway.

DF:

Well, without trying to sound like a total smart elik...Yes, actually, I *was* having fun personally.

"God has to be kept outside of school. Any kind of god. School is about knowledge."

Though I understand what your saying, at the same time, school should also be a place to learn about other cultures and civilizations...past and present. Therefore I believe it would be necessary ( to some degree) to talk about those culture's specific gods or God in order to understand what motivates the beliefs and behaviors in the people of those cultures.

Besides, the thing that irritates me...not just about the article but over here as well is that - where does it stop?

"bad comes out of good intent."

Sometimes but not always.

And what's us with the catholic nuns anyway? Sounds like they have a personal problem they need to get over. Of course, I'm sure there is much more to their story than that.