France bans burqa in immigrant classes and Denmark secularises its courts
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France has banned the wearing of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3261, another veil, in French classes for immigrants. French language classes are mandatory for immigrants applying for work papers, residency permits and citizenship.
Louis Schweitzer, the head of HALDE, told the newspaper La Croix that religious freedom is “not absolute” and could be limited if there is a valid reason. He denied any “extremism” in France’s implementation of its secularism. The HALDE said its decision was based on rulings from the European Human Rights Court’s ruling and took into account the demands of the French constitution.
A 2004 law bars students from wearing prominent religious symbols in schools or universities, including the Christian http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5471 of Islam called Salafism, didn’t fit with “essential values of the French community.”
Meanwhile, in Denmark, the government has decided that its courts will be http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2603 Muslim headscarves in court – and the Christian cross, the Jewish skullcap and the Sikh turban will also be banned.
“We have decided to prohibit the wearing of (all) religious or political symbols while exercising the function of a http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2882, because a judge must be neutral and impartial,” the Justice Minister Lene Espersen told reporters.
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Says a reader: Once again, freedom and common sense must suffer in the interests of propping up the unworkable “multicultural” agenda. The French are no longer allowed to wear crosses in the schools their foreparents built out of the fear of politicians of “offending” a population group that has no reason to be in France in the first place. Such a system is only able to persist because of coercion. “Tolerance” is enforced through INtolerance of national traditions, personal freedom and common sense.