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Sure. My point being more along the lines of respecting the institution. If there's certain rules set, one should abide by them, no matter what religion.
I've read some more on this. Kippas are banned as well. Crosses as well, but they tend to be condoned, and in that lies the mistake. The same rules apply for every bit of signalling. Now a crucifix pendant is more easily hidden than an headscarf or a kippah, but that's an enforcement issue.
Ideaogically I'm in agreement. I mean wearing a bad religion shirt is ok in my book, hell even a Charlie Hebdo Mohammed pic would be ok for me, but the murder of Samuel Paty shows that those aren't the same. I think that last part weighs in on this whole discussion.
I guess but you cant fault people to try to get around the rules if other people are allowed to get around them. You yourself say that that is the original issue, so I don't think only adressing the abayas is a good way to go about things, it's at most fighting the symptoms.
One interesting thing would be the traditional hair style jewish males might display. I'm honestly interested where you stand on that. Or lets take the face tatoos that some people of indigenous heritage might display. Just things that aren't easily changed or hidden. What would you do about that? I know the face tatoos are a thing that isn't likely to be an issue because they are rare but I wanted to give another example besides hair styles.
This strikes me as a bit odd. You don't want to allow people showing that they belong to a certain religion but you want to allow people to openly criticise peoples religions? It's still communication about religion but just in a different way right?
I agree that extremistic views and actions of extremists are weighing on this discussion, and I'd agree that islamists are currently the bigger immediate threat, compared to other extreme religious groups. But I think we all should make a concient effort to separate violent extremists from normal religious people. The vast majority of muslims are peaceful people just like the vast majority of christians and atheists are peaceful people.
That is not a quote of mine, I don't know how that got in here. I'll answer your question, though.
I would order them to wear some kind of hair cover in order not to show this. <- A joke, as I feel like I have to clarify. There's not much to be done about this. If I'd notice an increase in wearing of the hairstyle if wearing the Kippah is banned, I think a ban might be in order (as there's substitute signalling). Of course that way I would get a bit pity.
That's my personal opinion. I think everybody must be able to say anything. Nobody nor no religion can be exempt of ridicule. Obviously if people take offense or seek difference in treatment over religious grounds then a problem occurs. Thats why the seperation of church and state was so rigidly written into French law. If that is what it takes, and if students fail to observe the decency of abiding by those rules on their own account they should be held in contempt of the institution.
Agreed. And I subscribe to the idea of treating everybody favoribly and according to the same rule. Unfortunately laws are usually written to apply to the worst kind of people. I think in most cases it's not the students that are the source of the problem. I think the (self)isolation of the moslim population has something to do with it and the ideas of modern education are at odds with that. This is very unfortunate, I lament the downfall of the Islamic Golden age...