Wednesday, November 08, 2006

 

Limitation of Religious Expression Denounced

Back in 2003 a government report prompted lawmaking in 2004 to ban "overly visible" religious symbols in public schools, as a response to the growing uneasiness of school administrators confronted to girls wearing muslim headscarves.

While this is somewhat minor in comparison with religious persecution in other countries as reported by the Center for Religious Freedom, it brings questions as to the reasons and fears that motivated French society to limit the expression of religious faith in such a way.

Could the suppressing of this expression, politically motivated in part to denounce the struggling integration of (mostly Islamic culture) immigrants, might have provoked the urban chaos of 2005?

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