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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Elsewhere who wrote (123511)1/22/2004 9:11:54 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I do not see a dispute about learning French, I see only a dispute about the wearing of religious symbols. In America, the issues would be quite separate, certainly. We would not consider wearing of religious symbols, including the yarmulke and crucifix, as disqualifying to participate in the society they live in. Indeed, we have laws that protect against job discrimination on the basis of religion, and generate rules about what workplace accommodations are reasonable and what are not. In any case, your language all re-enforces the idea that the primary interest is in social solidarity, for example, when you say "it creates tensions if there is a big block in an age group which separates itself from the rest". So what? In America, we would endure such tension in favor of freedom in the exercise of religion........
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