On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:46:05 +0100, Paul Rudin wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: > >> On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:42:14 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote: >> >>> In middle-eastern society women are expected to dress heavier than in >>> the West. A few years ago a girl went to school in France with a scarf >>> and she was penalized. >> >> Citation please. I think this is bogus... > > This is not bogus. France has quite a strong tradition of keeping the > education system secular and has passed a law regarding the wearing of > "ostentatious" religious symbols in public schools, which also affects > things like the wearing of crosses. > > Wikipedia has plenty on this... > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_scarf_controversy_in_France>
Which does not differ that much from the rest of my post, which you deleted. It wasn't just a scarf, it was a religious head-covering, the hijab, and despite the original context which suggests that the poor girl happened to turn up to school one day with a scarf and was penalized just for bringing it to school, the three girls were asked to remove their hijabs, and were only penalized when they refused to obey school rules. I don't know where I stand on the hijab in general, but in this specific case, I stand by my skepticism about Rustom's description. -- Steven D'Aprano http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list