[Purrybonker]

You probably noticed that the French legislature passed a law yesterday banning all religious symbols from their public school system. This means no head scarfs, yamulkes, turbans or even crosses for that matter. The law passed overwhelmingly - a vote count of something like 494-50.

I'm not sure what to make of this - whether to be appalled at their lack of tolerance or to applaud the French for being progressive in eliminating possible foundations for prejudice and clashes of culture within their public system.

Apparently the law is based on French Napoleanic foundations of a secular republican state. I can see how this law plays to that foundation, but I guess I'm taken aback somewhat by how extreme the law seems to be. Of course the law has to pass through their judicial system at some point - presumably when someone choses to challenge it.

I have to admit that I chuckled a bit at the seemingly silliness of that removal of that ten-commandments statue (or whatever it was) from that legislative building in Georgia (I probably have the state wrong, too. Sorry about that if I missed badly on this one) last year. I wasn't sure what to make of that event, either.

But the French now seem to have taken this "secular public domain" thing one huge step further.

How do you guys react to this whole thing?