Reply #78: It's the same as banning gang colors.

[aquart]

Religious symbols creates tribal segregation among the students just as gang colors do.

France, which has a bloody history of religious massacre, is trying its best to maintain a secular society.

Not all Muslims insist their women cover up. Neither do all Jews feel the need to wear yarmulkas to prove their worthiness before God.

Those that do, are doing one thing more than practicing their faith. They are putting their faith in someone else's face.

The Muslims have come to live in France and, rather than live as the French, they are going to live as they do in the MidEast. Which means they are quietly trying to remake France, doesn't it? Into a religious country. Into a place where religious disputes and murders can take place daily.

That's why the headscarves are being forbidden. And the Yarmulkas, and crucifixes, and every other blood-soaked symbol of superiority and separatism.

Because, if they don't, one day there will be another St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. And they don't want one.