PARIS - Millions of French students returned to school Thursday as a new law banning Islamic head scarves from classrooms goes into effect amid demands by Islamic radicals holding two French hostages in Iraq that the law be scrapped...
A Wednesday night deadline passed with no word of the fate the journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, who disappeared Aug. 19 on their way from Baghdad to the southern city of Najaf. The French government has refused to cede to their demand to scrap the law.
How pathetic is it that two human lives hang in the balance over something as silly as a ban on headscarves in public schools? I hate to say that I agree with terrorists and I certainly do not mean to condone their tactics, but that headscarves ban is stupid legislation.
Anti-war activists accuse America of starting a "racist" war in Iraq. Meanwhile France bans cultural headware in schools. Yet somehow France is championed by the left as a bastion of good-sense.
It doesn't make any sense to me.