If it was a ban explicitly on Muslim headscarves it’d be discriminatory.

It’s a bit trickier than that. In France schools are secular by law. In principal this is great. In practice chistians never had an issue wearing their cross neckless, even in a visible manner. Muslim girls from conservative families on the other hand can be forced to quit school at a young age, since they are not allowed to wear a scarf there.

Seems self-defeating to me. Most effective way to fight radical religosity is to educate people. Let em go to school and half of them will be ex-Muslim by college.

Let them go to school

are you talking to the parents?

and half of them will be ex-Muslim by college

Have you seen this happening for christians? They pretty much all go to school.

Yes and education is very positively associated with abandoning a religion. In fact, most highly educated people are not religious. Among scientists it is extremely rare.

It seems obvious to me that the first step to leaving a religion is critical thinking and exposure to other beliefs. That’s entirely what college is for.

In a way I kind of agree with everything you mention.

On the other hand if we think of how long education has existed in Europe, it alone, would not justify the percentage of existing christians now a days.

It is important to take into consideration, who is in charge of the education. In Europe, it’s very often christians. Those in power who are not christians, more often than not, do not dare go against the prevalent religion in europe.

They say that they are christiqns, but they never pray, visit church or follow the bible.

Nah, the government. Trying to de-radicalize people with ingrained beliefs is hard and unlikely. Accept the parent’s wierd beliefs, let the kids go to school wearing whatever the parents want, and you get much less radical kids out the other end.

Yah, every graph of % of religious people is trending solidly down.

That’s a problem with enforcement, not the law.

As I anticipated. Racism sucks

Daily reminder that religion ≠ race

It’s intersectional.

It was coined in 1989 by professor Kimberlé Crenshaw to describe how race, class, gender, and other individual characteristics “intersect” with one another and overlap.

[Edit: Even tho race is not a scientific thing anymore, we had this narrative for so long that the term is still in use. At least it is used as a social construct. And we struggle as societies with racism. Still]

So?

Religion is a choice, an unverifiable one at that. There is no reason that such a choice should grant special privileges that someone non-religious, or of another religion would not be granted. Each such request must stand on its own merit.

In Europe the concept of freedom from religion is something that many different cultures have fought hard for - secularism.

What you say sounds brutal to me. The solution would be bridging the gap between theory and practice.

What about my statement is brutal? It’s not the law at fault, the law is impartial about all religious symbols. The problem is the lack of equal enforcement. Which is essentially what you’re saying in different words

My brother in nothing, enforcement is part of the law.

If you know a law will be applied unequally, don’t pass the damm law.

? The law has been around a century, current controversy is that it’s not being applied equally

Right, so maybe if it’s now being applied in a discriminatory fashion, it’s now due for a change? My point is that enforcement of the law cannot be considered separate from the law. A law that cannot be enforced does nothing, and a law that creates discrimination in enforcement is a discriminatory law.

I’ve never heard of a “gentle enforcement of the law”?

Also, law enforcement often comes from the police. France is no exception to police brutality.

So it looks like we both agree on the principle, but we have very different ways of approaching a solution.

Seems like I’m being attacked for something I didn’t say. My statement was purely a very minor thing, about how the issue is enforcement, not the actual law. And I certainly did not imply anything with it, but it seems a lot is being read into those few words that were not at all intended

I suppose if you feel this way, we better leave it here for today. Maybe if you take a look at this interaction of ours tomorrow, you will have a different point of view? At least I hope so.

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