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...unbelievable, it's disgraceful," fumed Savio Messias, secretary of the Goa Football Association. "This is a case of intense village rivalry taken to absurd levels." All four teams have been suspended from playing for a year, and India's National Football Association is mulling a life ban for everybody involved. Curtorim's general secretary Arnold D'Costa quit. But his Wilfred counterpart Diniz Sardinha stayed put, insisting that his side was being unfairly targeted for its "ability...
...fundamentalist Islam, Holoch misses both the point of wearing the headscarf and the meaning of “fundamentalist Islam”—two things that aren’t analogous. Wearing a headscarf is believed by many Muslims to be a divine prescription, much like the ban on drinking alcohol and eating pork. I certainly do not follow any extreme version of Islam by wearing a headscarf...
Many people who approve of the ban on headscarves in French schools in the name of secularism, integrating the Muslim community into French culture, and combating extremism fail to see an important point: the ban will lead to the very things it claims to oppose. Muslim girls who choose to wear headscarves will be forced to leave the mainstream society by lack of being afforded a public education. This will further entrench the fragmentation of French society. It will lead to a whole community of economically deprived, marginalized, ghettoized, and privately educated youth who feel antagonism towards the French republic...
...important to show that the Republic ... will not let itself be eaten away from within." JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN, French Prime Minister, defending France's decision to ban head scarves and other Islamic garb in public schools...
...construction projects and job creation. To succeed on a national scale, he'll have to reverse decades of neglect and indifference, which has led many banlieue residents to embrace the very cultural and religious identities that the Feb. 10 secularity vote seeks to discourage. And while opponents of the ban vow to continue their nationwide protests through the final vote, the head-scarf law may be only the beginning of France's controversial efforts to realize its republican ideals...