Saturday, December 20, 2003
Another reason to wonder about the viability of the European experiment: France's increasingly clumsy efforts to deal with religious symbols in public schools, namely by banning them.
That's right - setting state rule into direct conflict with personal religious obligations. Having thus far failed to seriously combat prejudice among the French Catholic majority against their Muslim minority or those of French Muslims against French Jews, Chirac wants to simply suppress all religious expression in the French school system. How can this possibly not blow up in his face?
That's right - setting state rule into direct conflict with personal religious obligations. Having thus far failed to seriously combat prejudice among the French Catholic majority against their Muslim minority or those of French Muslims against French Jews, Chirac wants to simply suppress all religious expression in the French school system. How can this possibly not blow up in his face?
