French PM calls for ban on Islamic headscarves at universities

TomandJerry said:

"The French prime minister, Manuel Valls, has sparked controversy by suggesting the Muslim headscarf should be banned in universities and that a majority of French people think Islam is incompatible with the values of the Republic.

The Socialist, under pressure over contested labour reforms and growing street protest movements, reopened the divisive question of whether students could be banned from wearing headscarves at French universities.

In a long interview with the daily Libération, he was asked whether headscarves should be banned by law from universities and replied: “It should be done,” conceding that the constitution made it difficult."

Agree!

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Perfidious Albion said:

What happened to "Liberty,fraternity, equality"?

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GreersElbow said:

France (and Belgium) already has serious problems with marginalisation and poor assimilation of ethnic minorities in communities; this will only deepen those problems. It's one of the predominant reasons why France and Belgium have significant radicalisation among their youth. Compare this to our country, who has taken (bear with me) a more liberal approach to physical civil liberties.
I believe, though many disagree with me, this explains largely why Britain has not had any significant attack on our land. The Paris terror attacks were mainly from French and Belgian nationals with easy access to bomb making ingredients such as acetone peroxide, which is also easily accessible in this country; however, whilst we're obviously a target for ISIS, it seems that France and Belgium has already the grievances in place to enable radicalisation to foster whereas our Muslim communities only appear to have trouble for small organisations such as Britain First and their ilk. Yes, the government has had some questionable policies, they've yet to go as far as beginning to ban certain aspects of Islamic culture. Fortunately, I have a few friends in the University of Lincoln's islamic society who all believe that Britain is a much safer, sounder and enjoyable place to live as opposed to many of our European partners. Anecdotal, I know, but they've assimilated and whilst a few have mentioned some racist comments from people, they shrug them off as it's literally only a few people.

The issue for France is, that they're opening up Europe to become a target and with Germany's asylum seeker/refugee pleas, this has opened up Europe to a region which only needs a few radicals to infiltrate. The EU-Turkey agreement is insanity given the current extremist threats most EU member states face. Once again, it's France and Germany ruining it for the rest of them..

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brightn'ove said:

I agree with what you are saying in a way - but would you not count the attacks on 7/7/2005 as significant?

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8ace said:

If the muslims don't like it they could always f*ck off back to their own scummy backwards countries and try getting an education there.

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