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First of all, integration has nothing to do with the headscarf. They are simply unrelated issues—women who wear the scarf have a wide variety of relationships to French secular society. I would be deeply offended if my fellow American Muslims were called “un-American” simply because some of us choose to wear the headscarf. But even if the headscarf does indeed represent a segregation of communities, the ban will do nothing to help integrate France. In response to the ban, Muslim parents may take their children out of public schools and place...
Howard said the same day she found out about her impending Ad Board case, the Tibetan Assocation of Boston honored her with a white silk scarf called a katag, a sign of respect in Tibet...
...Symbols are tricky. They mean different things to different people. In France, those wearing a head scarf, yarmulke or crucifix see these adornments as symbols of personal devotion to Islam, Judaism or Catholicism. But members of the French political and intellectual establishment regard them as deliberate challenges to the secular nature of the republic. Americans, meanwhile, think of skyscrapers as testaments to the can-do spirit of American capitalism. (The Empire State Building was erected during the Great Depression!) Islamic fundamentalists, as we learned two years ago, see skyscrapers as idolatrous emblems of a society that serves Mammon rather than...
...muses, as Cliff sits petrified. ?They can trick a melody out of a keyboard. They can mold beauty out of a piece of common clay... Yet the same pair of hands can do terrible evil. They can destroy, torture, even kill.? He glares at Cliff and takes off his scarf...
...movie has a pretty twist in store. [SPOILER] Nice-guy Marty is indeed the killer - the janitor had let him out of his room, he went to Mavis? place hoping for an anniversary reunion and, when she rudely rejected his affections, he strangled her with his scarf (overtones of Franchot Tone!) - but he doesn?t remember because his alcoholic stupor blotted out the deed. Now that all is clear, he wants to save the husband of the woman he loves. A killer racing against time to turn himself in: that?s a poignant twist...