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Absolutely agree with you, except in one regard. Specific laws that address what you can and cannot wear (or have on your person) in particular situations for safety reasons. If motorcycle crash helmets are mandatory, then there should be no exception for turbans. If everyone has to show their face at passport control, then masks of any kind are banned.  There are plenty of grey cases I am sure, that we can argue about.

Head scarves? Do me a favour! You might just as well try to stop all those desert-booted young professional protestors from wearing their Arafat scarves. We live in a world where many people walk around advertising their 'religion' on T-shirts. It's a personal choice. A statement. Freedom of 'speech'. It is not a question of safety or harming others.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Jan 15th, 2007 at 12:58:37 PM EST
I was driving along listening to NPR this afternoon, and there was a discussion  with 3 women: one a Palestinian-born muslim, a Roman Catholic and a Jew - all with kids living in New York.  They had originally got together to write a kid's book about the things that unite the Abrahamic religions. They had so many heated arguments before they became friends, that the book turned into an adult one called 'The Faith Club'

http://www.thefaithclub.com/

As I understand it, it is a book about understanding each other and about reconcilation. About what the cores of those religions really mean. Sounds good to me. I wish though there had been one more woman in the group. You can probably guess: an agnostic (at least) ;-)

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by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Jan 15th, 2007 at 01:11:13 PM EST
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Oooooh... that looks really interesting.  Thanks for the link.

Yeah, an agnostic would have been a good addition...

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Mon Jan 15th, 2007 at 01:17:43 PM EST
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