: Apparently the reasoning is that wearing the headscarf / veil is a "religious statement" which would interfere with the "secular atmosphere" of french schools. French kids can wear crucifixes, however. Apparently the crucifix is a "cultural" statement, not a 'religious" one. Of course the real reason is that the schools are situated in boroughs of the National Front who are on some kind of catholic fundamentalist crusade removing leftwing literature from libraries and providing nothing but pork or other unclean meats at schools that they know islamic believers attend.
Secularism can not be the denial of religion but the acceptance of diversity, it cant be a toleration either, since merely tolerating something means that you would otherwise oppress it but for some circumstance you will not at present. Secularism should be a celebration of diversity with humanist institutionalism.
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