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the frenchies

posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 11:24pm on 09/03/2006 under , , ,
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Racial discrimination, xenophobia surging worldwide: UN expert

and just to prove the point ...

Tuesday, March 07, 2006
French tribunal rules against Sikh turbans in driver's license photos

so french. and so very, very silly.
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posted by [identity profile] velvetink.livejournal.com at 01:21pm on 09/03/2006
You can't wear a hat in our driver's licence photos either...no matter what kind.
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posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 03:19pm on 09/03/2006
I just don't get why - as 'security' issues go, i'd have thought the knife they carry would pose more of a threat than the cloth they wrap round their head.

Being able to distinguish between a genuine Sikh and an imposter would seem to me the more relevant security/identity issue.

[Sikh turbans are not mere 'hats' ... certainly not to a Sikh male.]

Most Sikhs I know would consider such a demand as another example of ignorance. There's already far too much of that around the place to begin with without enforcing it.

The French laws are supposed to "make everyone equal" ... by requiring some people to be afforded less respect than others. So much for Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité ...
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posted by [identity profile] reverancepavane.livejournal.com at 04:15am on 10/03/2006
But Sikh males are required to wear their turbans in public.

Then again, they are also required to carry their khirpan (a small ceremonial dagger) at all times, and few do (since it generally falls afoul of most knife laws).

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posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 05:06am on 10/03/2006
i know ... which is part of why i find this kind of decision untenable. why require the id document to not look like the person it is supposed to identify ...

the french obviously argue equality, but they really mean equivalence. everyone has to be dragged to the same equivalent public situation. as i see it, in their effort to prevent some groups from claiming 'special treatment', they're ensuring no one gets it. (in both senses of 'gets it').
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