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On Feb 4, 2010, at 7:32 PM, Adam Richmond wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > "The ban is on schoolgirls wearing it in school. " > > Do we reserve the right of bourgeois schools to impose a dress code > on its students? > That runs counter to free self expression on the part of the students. > When I was going to school girls would be humiliated routinely by > principals who'd measure their skirts to make sure they were long > enough. Black students were forbidden from wearing Afros.Should > Amish and Mennonite women be prohibited from wearing the prayer cap > in U.S. schools? Should Sikh students be prohibited from keeping a > kirpan with them? > > As for the rights of the women involved, they should have the right > to wear what they like, as they prefer. The patriarchs of the patriarchal Muslim family force their daughters to conform to "their ethnic traditions." Those "ethnic traditions" are as abominable as those of orthodox Jews and Christians. It is the positive duty of any democratic state to deny patriarchs that right. > They should not be forced by the state to choose between their > ethnic traditions and public education. Public education is education only to the extent that it destroys those "ethnic traditions." L'École Publique has always been at war with the "ethnic traditions" of La France Catholique. It should have no tolerance for the "ethnic traditions" of fundamentalist Islam. Shane Mage "L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce qu'on a apporté." Bardo Thodol ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
