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Ephidel	May 6 2009, 01:24 PM
Posts: 38 Group: FEFFer Member #1,937 Joined: June 19, 2008	Quote: Preserving the minority culture doesn't mean eliminating the majority culture or making it "bend" to fit a different set of social constraints. For example, take the example of Muslim girls in schools. They should be allowed to wear headscarves in class if they so wish because it's a matter of putting their cultural beliefs into practice. Nobody else has to wear headscarves, nobody has to believe in Islam, but we permit somebody else to further enact their set of beliefs with no harm to the majority. I'd say that's a poor example. Personally, I believe that giving a religious person more freedom than any other person (say, by allowing them to wear otherwise-unauthorised clothes such as headscarves, jewellery, beards, Sikh daggers and so on) is wrong. Either give everyone equal freedom or make everyone obey the same law, religion or none. Quote: Take in France for example, where Muslim girls are not allowed to wear headscarves in school. That, in my opinion, is an unacceptable infringement on their rights. Would you consider it an infringement on the rights of, say, Atheist or Christian girls that they are not allowed to wear headscarves either?


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