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...Student Dress Code Your notebook item [Feb. 2] on the debate over France prohibiting the wearing of head scarves and other religious symbols in public schools missed one point: France's schools, which close on Sundays and Christian holidays, purport to be secular, but in fact they are Christian schools, pressuring Jews to attend on Saturdays and telling Muslim girls not to cover their hair. If "small crucifixes" are O.K., then why not small head scarves or small Jewish skullcaps? Joseph A. Feld London...
...Arab-American Muslim who wears a headscarf, I am dismayed with Daniel B. Holoch’s comment, “One Nation, Secular and Indivisible” (Feb. 12). Holoch defines the Muslim girls who wear headscarves as “young French ethnic Arabs who do not adhere to fundamentalist Islam for cultural reasons” but as a means of composing a new identity at odds with the French republic. By describing those who wear headscarves as adhering to fundamentalist Islam, Holoch misses both the point of wearing the headscarf and the meaning...
...undo the damage done by almost a century of liberal thinking and activism,” according to its website—became something of a personal mission for Davey. He began to see his case as a chance to protect religious people from discrimination propagated by a secular, liberal power elite...
Ethnic grudges die hard in Iraq. In towns like Dibagan all across the country, long-simmering disputes between Arabs and Kurds, Sunnis and Shi'ites, and even secular and religious Iraqis are bubbling to the surface--all of which has complicated the U.S.'s plan to transfer power to a new Iraqi government by June 30 and raised questions about whether Iraq will remain whole after it does. And so it was not entirely surprising that the Bush Administration last week scrambled for help in sorting out the mess. In a meeting at the White House, President Bush asked...
...socioeconomically. For many young women, the headscarf is as much a symbol of repudiation of France as it is a token of belonging to Islam. The intent of the new law is not to undermine cultural diversity—there is no calling into question religious freedom outside the secular setting of public education. It will, however, disarm students of the tools they use in their public schools to define themselves as separate from or even in conflict with each other and republican values. This assurance that students will leave their religion aside as they walk in the door will...