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If you allow the burka's they won't be a statement of non-conformity.  For school-age people they'll become an item of stigma, like anything else that makes a person different.
by paving on Thu Jun 18th, 2009 at 08:31:39 PM EST
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except if it becomes a symbol of conformity/allegiance to smaller sub-communities. That's what the French State does not want to tolerate.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 04:23:48 AM EST
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that's why i agree with it, though with heavy heart, as it will create possibly as many problems as it seeks to resolve.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Jun 19th, 2009 at 05:25:57 AM EST
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