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...freshman duo, competing as “Team Annenberg,” edged out the upperclassman representatives from each House. They won kitchen utensils, monogrammed Harvard University Dining Services aprons with the winners’ initials, and a $100 gift card to local French bistro Chez Henri...
...Switzerland, far-right parties have persuaded voters that the veil is unequivocally a symbol of Europe’s Islamification—even though only an estimated 1,900 women wear the full veil in France out of six million Muslims. Polls indicate that 70 percent of the French public supports a ban on the burqa, even though a fraction of this number would be in favor of outlawing similar expressions of faith from other religions such as crosses and yarmulkes...
France’s cultural and legal struggle with the question of Muslim immigration arose again with French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposal to outlaw the wearing of the burqa in public places. His suggestion seems serious, since Belgium moved one step closer to passing a similar bill last Thursday, and comparable debates are occurring in Italy and the Netherlands. Supporters argue that the law would defend women’s freedom and help ensure safety on public transit. However, we oppose the bill soon-to-be under consideration in France as an unjust and unjustifiable measure...
...firmly oppose the French law, and do not believe that it can be defended as a security measure or a feminist one. It acts only to restrict the individual choices and religious expression of French citizens. We recognize the strain that Muslim immigration and integration are putting on French culture but encourage the nation to find a happy medium where the individual religious practices of Muslims are respected, even while preserving French culture. Much has been made over what it means to be truly French—but surely no particular style of dress or worship is more truly French...
Rahimi suggested that his wandering was at once physical and artistic. After studying film at the Sorbonne, and releasing more than 20 documentaries, he began to write novels in Persian. His first novel in French, “Singue Sabour” (“Stone of Patience”), earned him the Goncourt Prize...