The Fwench.

[notyoueither]

Heard an interesting blurb on the radio today. Some school boards in Canada may be considering copying the French edict re religious garb and symbols in schools. I have not found a written source yet, but I will look for one.

Personally, I think they'd get trashed pretty fast. We have adapted the uniform of the Mounties to accomodate Sikhs after all. Also, Canadian courts are very much focused on individual freedoms and we have no compelling issue of religious strife to point to historically to justify such a ban.

Also there's the little fact that Catholic education is a constitutional right. Curiously in our case, that is due to the French fact.

[Spiffor]

Secularism run amok without a doubt. (More precisely, the questioning of the "secularism at school" old dogma).

The whole affair began in previous summer, as two teenage girls came headscarved at School and adamantly refused to remove their scarves (as already decided by previous laws). Interesting factoid: the father of these two sisters was a middle class Jewish atheist, while their mother was a Berber catholic

Since then, there was a real hystery about this extremely benign problem (very, very few girls keep their headscarves at school), and it hasn't stopped till yet. The hystery comes from the fact we are so attached to our dogma of secularism at school, and to the fear the Muslims reintroduce religion in politics (like these fricking catholics in the past), that we didn't try to think about what the real meaning of secularism is.

[Jaguar]

Spiffor, do you think that this ban of religious symbols was motivated by the outbreak of anti-muslim and anti-semitic attacks in France, or is it just secularism run amok?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by skywalker
Not with so many christians. It's just not practical - you have to give time off from school for religious holidays (I assume it's the same as in the US) and so you'd be missing the majority of the school (even with all of the immigration, native French still outnumber immigrants, right?)

Religious observance is low among French Christians. We have very few people who still observe days like the All-Saints (1st November), or Mary's Assumption (15th August) for their religious values. Heck, even big religious moments such as Easter and Christmas are hardly religiously observed anymore.

In French schools, we have about 2 weeks vacations every 8 weeks (that is a 6 weeks work - 2 weeks vac sequence). It is very easy to have these vacations encompass religious holidays. For example, there is no reason that Spring vacation gets called "easter vacation", just as there is no reason the November vacation gets called the "All-Saints vacation". Especially with WW1 armistice (Nov. 11) so near.

[Kingof the Apes]

Originally posted by CharlesBHoff
I hear the french now want to ban man from wearing bead, well if any of your fascat French police try to cut my bead will be a dead fascat french police.

Will that be a problem in El Paso?

I never said Alien control the US government. There are alien sent by God to save mankind from itself, they are estable the best Intelligence grathing network on this planet. We are haveing so much fun laughting at the mess America is makeing in Iraq.

A good job they at saving mankind from itself by laughing at Iraq...
Out of curiosity, are you a Raelian?

Also in 1934 than alien spacecraft crach land in Germany
the Nazie recover the craft than study it.

And what did they lean from it?

[CharlesBHoff]

Originally posted by skywalker


Not with so many christians. It's just not practical - you have to give time off from school for religious holidays (I assume it's the same as in the US) and so you'd be missing the majority of the school (even with all of the immigration, native French still outnumber immigrants, right?)

In Americ there is no Christmas or Easter School Break anymore. We have winter and string break now. There is no more Christmas party at school anymore they are winter party now.

[Kuciwalker]

I could read that, but it takes too much effort.

[Spiffor]

Being a furinner opens new doors in discovering hidden meanings

[Dauphin]

You can read that?

[Spiffor]

Thank you Charles for reminding me. So, that was the aliens testing Iranian and Pakistanis nuclear weapons on one of their test planets, whereas Iranian and Pakistanis officials merely visited the test area from time to time.

Thanks for sharing this exclusive information

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Spiffor
To be fair, the commission that "thought" about the anti-headscarf law advocated the introduction of a Jewish holiday and a Muslim holiday is the school's schedule.

I personally think we should scrap Christian holidays altogether, and replace them by purely Republican ones.

Not with so many christians. It's just not practical - you have to give time off from school for religious holidays (I assume it's the same as in the US) and so you'd be missing the majority of the school (even with all of the immigration, native French still outnumber immigrants, right?)

[CharlesBHoff]

Originally posted by Spiffor
But I clearly remember a thread where you were talking about Pakistanis military experiments somewhere in Space. So, since I can't remember the specifics, could you please remind me what the Pakistanis did experiment on in Space, and where ?

The Intelligence grathing network I talk about detect that Iran and Pakistan have delvolp nuclear weapon in 1987 for very good reason, India have nuclear weapon allready than was alway treathen Pakistan with then and Iran was fighting than long war with America proxy Iraq, America gave Iraq Nerve and Mustard gases to use against Iran and America encought Iraq to use then when they start to use then on their own people and on Iran and we lower the threadhold on use of chemical weapon in general and our recontly effect to ruin than thready ban the manufactoring of all chemical weapons and bio weapon with than inspection regine our bio tech companies didnot like. This Intelligence network have no bias like America show like it allright for Israel to have nuclear weapon and nerve gas agent but not Iran to have nuclear weapon or for India to have nuclear weapons but not Pakistan to have nuclear weapons. The alien Government with represent from Iran and Pakistan visit the alien testing planets where nothing live anyway we tested they nuclear weapon for then. Iran feeling threaten by Israel nuclear weapons so they want they own in case Israel decide to use their own they would be surpise that Iran have then too.

The USSR gave Iran poison gases to use back on Iraq as the USSR was worry about allowing Iraq to get away with their use of poison gases without it being use back on then also.

[Spiffor]

But I clearly remember a thread where you were talking about Pakistanis military experiments somewhere in Space. So, since I can't remember the specifics, could you please remind me what the Pakistanis did experiment on in Space, and where ?

[CharlesBHoff]

Originally posted by Spiffor
And it were those Aliens that gave Pakistan a training ground on the other side of the moon (or was it a planet out of the Sol system?) to try their nuclear weapons.

Now the NAS believe that Iran and North Korea have the number of Nuclear weapon I stated. First this technology is old allready an it any nation or originate want to build nuclear weapon they will built then no matter what the rest of the world think. It is impossible to stop technologry from speading.

[Spiffor]

And it were those Aliens that gave Pakistan a training ground on the other side of the moon (or was it a planet out of the Sol system?) to try their nuclear weapons.