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To: lorne who wrote (3571)	1/29/2004 8:59:35 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 3959

Re: Francois Bayrou, a former education minister who heads the UMP's coalition partner the Union for French Democracy (UDF), said he would oppose the law because "the disadvantages outweigh the advantages." Bayrou summed it up... the enforcement of that law will be messy. Besides, the whole issue oozes with hypocrisy: feminists and secular zealots claim that it's all about women's rights and equality with men. So far so good... trouble is that we're dealing with IMMIGRANTS in the first place and, although some Maghrebi girls may be sweated into wearing the hijab by their family, most of them wear it voluntarily, even proudly, as a cultural token.... That fuss over the hijab actually betrays the very failure of France'segregative model (as opposed to the US' co-optative model). To say nothing of other ethnic minorities that somehow will wind up as collateral damage of the anti-hijab law (the Sikhs,e.g.) Gus