French President Urges Ban On Head Scarves in Schools (washingtonpost.com): "French President Urges Ban On Head Scarves in Schools"

"Chirac Confronts Spread of Islam"

The Bubba Post fumbled on this one, buddy. Their error is understandable, given how many bubbas there are in Washington these days, but the fact remains that they dropped the ball.

What Chirac is confronting is not "Islam" but "Separatism", translated by the Bubbas as "Communalism". A particularly damaging aspect of fanatical Islam is the separation of women from society through antics like headscarves. So Chirac has taken up the important decision to ban those separatist symbols from public schools and hospitals.

Now most Bubbas in America, raised on Religious Freedom, don't understand this. Why can't you wear a scarf to school if it's in your religion? But the simple fact is that in the US these symbols are separatism are not at all tolerated by the public, even if it isn't against the law. In France, that tolerance has gone too far and now the law much take over.