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« Around the Horn | Main | No, This is NOT Happening » August 08, 2005French Policy Discriminatory and OppressiveI've written quite a bit about the French law forbidding students from wearing "visible religious symbols" or clothing. Howard Friedman is reporting that the French government has now decided, after much lobbying, that Sikhs can wear patkas (an under-turban) or headscarves, but not turbans, in school. Meanwhile, no other religious group has gotten such a dispensation from the government. Muslims are forbidden from wearing headscarves or burkas, Jews from wearing yarmulkes and Christians from wearing visible crosses. The current French prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, said several months ago that the government was willing to negotiate over this policy with the Sikhs due to "the specificity of Sikh community, which is very well respected in France." Apparently the Sikhs are more "specific" than Muslims...whatever that could possibly mean. This is discrimination, plain and simple. And it is a violation of multiple human rights treaties that the French government has signed. Posted by at August 8, 2005 03:44 PM CommentsPosted by: Joel Thomas at August 8, 2005 04:15 PM | permalink This is wrong and dispicable, but I would never - ever - support enforcement of an international treaty on the French government on these grounds. Posted by: Joshua Claybourn at August 8, 2005 04:42 PM | permalink Josh wrote: This is wrong and dispicable, but I would never - ever - support enforcement of an international treaty on the French government on these grounds. Well, there is no provision for enforcing such provisions anyway, nor do I think there should be. I'm appalled enough by my own government, a world government would certainly be far worse. Posted by: Ed Brayton at August 8, 2005 05:31 PM | permalink Posted by: Mark Olson at August 10, 2005 02:30 AM | permalink Post a comment |
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