Word: symbolization
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...chalk markings appeared on the sidewalk a few days after I moved into my new house. A symbol that looked like two half-moons back to back was scrawled beneath the words "Outside the Box." What did it mean? Was it some bizarre pagan ritual conducted by aficionados of business slogans? Nope--Outside the Box was the name I had assigned on my computer to my wi-fi network. There was only one explanation: I'd been warchalked...
...weeks - religious freedom and cultural identity clash with secular ideals. In all three, the decision-makers said they were upholding their countries' laws on the separation of church or mosque and state. But taken together, the cases raise uncomfortable questions about tolerance. Why, for instance, should a religious symbol like a crucifix be acceptable in a public school - as Italians overwhelmingly say it should be - while a head scarf worn by a young girl is not? Why should one kind of head scarf be permitted, and another outlawed? For non-Muslims, the rulings challenge long-held views about the relationship...
...surface. You must not confuse culture with the state and the rights of its citizens. You can keep your crucifix in your home or your church or around your neck, but not at my child's school." Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu disagrees. "The crucifix is not only a religious symbol; it represents 2,000 years of history and culture," he told Time. "Immigrants' cultural and religious identities must be respected, but they must also be expected to follow the established judicial and political system of our country. How can a court side with one Muslim parent over the wishes...
...private schools run by Catholic, Protestant and other religious groups, such as Marseilles's Saint Mauront. But some non-Muslims say taking head scarves private only allows people to avoid confronting the fact that Western culture and Muslim attitudes toward women are incompatible. Feminists denounce the hijab as a symbol of female subjugation - a view many Muslim women find patronizing. Says Iyman Alzayed, 45, a teacher in Hanover: "My head scarf is just something that hides my hair." Germany has been grappling with these issues for more than a decade. In 1995, its Constitutional Court prohibited overwhelmingly Catholic Bavaria from...
...administration's two-step was quickly dubbed "bannergate," winning a suffix that the partisan and the bored often use to puff up the puniest of non-scandals. But while the banner business means little by itself, the shifting and shading could become a symbol of Bush's suddenly growing credibility problem, coming as it does in the wake of the controversy over claims in the president's State of the Union address and other pre-war speeches about Iraq's yet-to-materialize weapons of mass destruction and leaks from White House officials about the identity of a CIA operative...