Just a couple of questions: If a Muslim girl goes to a school, and wants to wear the bhurka, she should be able to wear one but only in the colours of the school. That sound right? And if that girl can wear a bhurka, shouldn't another girl be allowed to wear her cross?
I don't really get the point of school uniforms. Is there actually a reason the hypothetical girl here shouldn't be allowed to wear whatever she damn well pleases?
I don't live in America, but I've heard stories of people getting kicked out of schools for any religious symbols. Including rings with hardly noticeable symbols.
For the sake of the rules, not for the sake of good.
Never heard of this. Overwhelmingly, religious people, especially Christians, in the US fake persecution. They spout something about taking prayer out of schools, etc etc. The fact of the matter is these people in this country make most of the laws, try to ignore separation of church and state as much as possible and if we didn't impose some limits they would've turned us into their theocracy and demanded we thank them for it.... There is a reason we separate church and state; they seem to call upon the idea only when someone else's religion tries to make a law
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Texas has rewritten the history books to eliminate various founders of the country and replace them with religious figures who were never Americans and in many cases not alive when the country was. Namely,
they removed Thomas Jefferson and
placed in St. Thomas Aquinas as a founding father, which is total and utter bullshit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.htmlWhy'd they do it?
Because Jefferson said separation of church and state, which they loath. Rather they want their church as the state and everyone else's separated.... You might not understand why this is such a big deal, it's only Texas, except fucking Texas, through a little company called McGraw Hill
publishes about 80% of the text books used in this country!My favorite chocolate covered piece of bullshit is this lying moron:“I reject the notion by the left of a constitutional separation of church and state,” said David Bradley, a conservative from Beaumont who works in real estate. “I have $1,000 for the charity of your choice if you can find it in the Constitution.”
That would be the establishment clause of the first amendment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Establishment_Clause_of_the_First_Amendment. I'm still waiting for the $1000 check you smug sack of shit.... Guess what else isn't in the U.S. Constitution, your right to life (Don't quote the Declaration of Independence, it is not the Constitution and has no legal force), to vote (Historically citizens voted for the legislatures and the legislatures voted for who was in the electoral college and they voted for president.... Even the amendments about voting don't say you have the right to vote only that you can't be stopped from doing so based on sex or race...). A whole crapload of rights are implied in the constitution but never mentioned, and without this implication, the system doesn't work. This man is not a historian or a lawyer or even sane.... Yet he is writing the overwhelming majority of history books in the US....
Think about that, these bastards are literally rewriting the history books and omitting people who don't fit with their crazy, completely inaccurate, batshit nuts political ideology of how this country was founded. Seriously, screw you mindwashing bastards, because
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas died over 500 years before the country was even seriously thought up. Don't let the fact that it is physically impossible for this man to be a founder of a country made over 500 years after his death stop you from saying he did exactly that.... Brainwashing....
Speaking of Brainwashing, that's my problem with Burkas.
I really doubt she was wearing a full burqa to school, but if she was, then I apologise for being wrong.
Common misconception that all head coverings are "burqas".
Either way, a burqa is not an outright religious symbol, as it is neither mandated nor mentioned any where in the Quran, but rather imposed upon Islamic women by certain Muslim cultures. I'm also sure some might not agree that it is 'imposed' either.
I imagine that if that Muslim girl had a big Islamic crescent hanging off her neck the school wouldn't allow it either.
I see it as Stockholm Syndrome for a backwards view of women. In
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia#Women_in_Saudi_society, Saudi Arabia, women are property and treated as such. You have to be covered at all times and accompanied by a man when outside the home.