http://www.france24.com/en/20130805-muslim-veil-ban-urged-french-universities
QuoteMuslim veil ban urged in French universities
France prohibits all children from wearing religious symbols such as Muslim headscarves in schools. A government agency has recommended extending the ban to universities, citing "growing tensions".
French government agency responsible for maintaining the country's secular values has recommended banning university students from wearing religious symbols such as crucifixes, Jewish skullcaps and Muslim headscarves.
In a report seen by French daily Le Monde on Monday, the High Council for Integration (HCI) said it was alarmed by "growing tensions in all sectors of university life" that were undermining the country's secular values.
n 2004, France passed a law banning school children from wearing religious symbols in all educational establishments, except for universities. The move, the report noted, has been successful in reducing problems arising from religious differences in schools.
The HCI now wants to see the same rules applied to universities.
Tensions, it reported, came from "demands to be excused from attendance for religious reasons, demands for separation of sexes in lectures and seminars, instances of proselytising, disagreements over the curriculum, and the wearing of religious clothes and symbols."
'Law needs updating'
The report makes 12 recommendations, chiefly that the 2004 law should be updated to prohibit university students from wearing religious symbols, in particular the Muslim headscarf.
The full report, Le Monde said, is due to be published in the autumn.
Official secularity has a long history in France, dating back to the 1905 Separation of Churches and State law.
While this legislation was intended to reduce the influence of Christianity on French public life, Islam is increasingly influential in France, which has Europe's biggest Muslim population (estimated at five million).
Following the 2004 law banning religious symbols in schools, former president Nicolas Sarkozy's government in 2011 banned the wearing of the full face-covering Islamic veil in all public places.
http://www.thelocal.fr/20130805/report-calls-for-veil-ban-in-french-universities
Quote'No justification to ban veils in universities'
Some experts on secularism in France say there is no need to crackdown on religious symbols, particularly those belonging to Islam in French universities.
"Demonstrations of religion in universities have not increased in recent years. Secularism is not in danger," Raphael Liogier, director of the Observatory on Religions and author of "Islam is a Myth" told Europe 1 radio said.
"Wanting to ban the veil in school is justified by the need to protect children from the influence of their parents. But it makes no sense in higher education," he added.
However making a distinction between schools and universities has caused its own problems.
Earlier this year The Local reported how a university lecturer was foreced to apologise after ejecting a Muslim student from one of his classes for wearing the hijab.
The teacher, who had worked in secondary schools, had forgotten that the ban on headscarves did not apply to universities.
Miks aina kielletään vaan huivit?
Miks ei ikinä kielletä kans ruokkopartoja, miesten mekkoja ja liian lyhyitä lahkeita? >:(
Onko se huivi nyt jotenkin ainut islamin symboli, mitä?
Jännää että pelätään teokratiaa mutta tämänlainen sekulokratia onkin "hyvä juttu": kumpaakin nimittäin yhdistää se, että uskotaan että 1 ainoa idea on oikein ja kaikki muut väärin. Toisinajattelijoille tilanne on vain "voi voi" kun heillä ei ole oikeutta poikkeavaan mielipiteeseen koska väärä mielipide koska teo/sekulokratia.
Quote from: suvisnuiva on 05.08.2013, 20:13:13
Tensions, it reported, came from "demands to be excused from attendance for religious reasons, demands for separation of sexes in lectures and seminars, instances of proselytising, disagreements over the curriculum, and the wearing of religious clothes and symbols."
Todella vaikea arvata mikä sakki näitä vaatimuksia on suurimmalti esittänyt.