Reply #111: peace of cake

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it is the way around, religions define their symbols to reconize their group.

a KKK hat is also a standard white hat, but it identify yourself.
a Skull cap is also a piece of clothes, but it identify yourself.
a Hammer and a sling blade, a christian cross, the list is very long and I don't have enough knowledge of religions, but for people in these groups and outside these group, it is a symbol that make identification possible.

this law is old (1905) and generic, but everybody focued on the scarf.

about the scraf... 2 possibilities:

1) it is not a religious symbol and therefore, like a baseball cap, a beret, sun-glasses or any stuff you have on your head/face, you remove it in school (it was like that when I was in school in france in 80s) just because it is polite (you also remove your jacket, you don't fart, you don't burp, etc...).

2) it is a religious or political symbol and therefore it is not authorized.

in both case, you don't cover your head/face in the classroom.
I leave it to concerned people to defined if the scarf is a religious symbol, but in both case, it won't be weared in the classroom.

but that is not the biggest issue... some student refuse (don't want or are not allowed ??? guess) to practice sport (swimming pool), to learn natural sciences (reproduction, evolution) or even to learn history (holocaust).

science vs religious faith,
historical facts vs religious blindness,
make your choice. :tinfoilhat: