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Gurbani (696-703)
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 182210" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Muslims worried as France considers extending head scarf ban to private sector jobs</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>The Associated Press - April 1, 2013 10:05 AM </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>LE BOURGET, France </strong>— Because of her choice to wear a head scarf, Samia Kaddour, a Muslim, has all but abandoned trying to land a government job in France. Soon, some private sector jobs could be off limits, too.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">French President Francois Hollande says he wants a new law that could extend restrictions on the wearing of prominent religious symbols in state jobs into the private sector.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">His new tack comes after a top French court ruled in March that a daycare operator that gets some state funding unfairly fired a woman in a head scarf, sparking a political backlash.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">As Christians celebrated Easter on Sunday, Kaddour attended the four-day Annual Meeting of Muslims of France in Le Bourget, north of Paris. The convention, which last year drew some 160,000 faithful and was expected to grow this year, is billed as the largest annual gathering of its kind in Europe. It is in its 30th year and ended Monday.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Bans Grow on Religious Symbols</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">French law bars state employees from wearing prominent religious symbols such as Muslim head scarves, Jewish skullcaps or large Christian crosses in public schools, welfare offices or other government facilities. Two years ago, France banned Muslim veils that cover faces, such as the niqab, which has a slit for the eyes, or the mesh-screen burka, from being worn anywhere in public.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Meeting leaders say France has made progress in accepting Muslims and noted that, unlike 30 years ago, women wearing head scarves today rarely draw suspicion, scowls or curiosity.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Religious Expression Crimped</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Still, many Muslims — and even some Roman Catholics and Jews — fear France’s insistence on secular values first enshrined in the French Revolution more than two centuries ago is unfairly crimping their ability to express their religious beliefs freely.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">They also worry that Hollande’s Socialist government, like a conservative one before it, wants to score political points.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Islamophobia?</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Most mainstream politicians insist Islam is not being targeted. But a backlash erupted after the Court of Cassation ruled in March that Baby Loup, a private-sector daycare operator that gets some state funding, unfairly fired a woman who wore a head scarf to work. The far-right railed at the decision, and even Interior Minister Manuel Valls expressed regret over it.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Wading into the debate in a prime-time TV interview on Thursday, Hollande suggested new limits are needed on Muslim head scarves, saying that “when there is contact with children, in what we call public service of early childhood ... there should be a certain similarity to what exists in (public) school.”</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">“I think the law should get involved,” he added.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Many Muslims fear an encroaching Islamophobia, while proponents of such measures insist they counter extremism and act as a rampart to protect France’s identity against inequality. Polls show that most French people support at least some restrictions on religious symbols.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Growing Muslim Population</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">France, with an estimated five million to six million Muslims whose families mostly have origins in former French colonies in North Africa, is at the forefront of addressing the challenges that many European countries are facing about how to integrate their sizable ethnic and religious minorities on a continent where white Christians have dominated the political landscape for centuries.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>‘Don’t Panic, I’m Muslim’</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Bristling against stereotypes in many corners of the West that Muslims are closet radicals or even terrorists, leaders of the convention in Le Bourget preached peace and justice. And after prayers and praise of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, convention leaders led a song in Arabic in a vast meeting hall with thousands in the audience — and some up on the dais waved French flags.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In another convention hall, vendors offered items such as head scarves, sweet pastries or T-shirts emblazoned with the saying “Don’t Panic, I’m Muslim,” while mothers pushing strollers and others wandered through the crowd. Nearby, men knelt in rhythmic unison for afternoon prayers. Several other stalls took up political issues such as support for Palestinians or war-weary Syrians.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In an interview, Kaddour said many Muslims regret that their faith is in the political cross-currents again in France.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">“Islam has become a political instrument,” said the 26-year-old, who is a community activist from the English Channel port city of Le Havre and one of 10 children of Algerian-born parents who moved to France for plentiful jobs during its economic boom times decades ago. “Islam is always brandished whenever there is internal political discord.”</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">“I’m not discouraged enough yet to want to leave France — many others feel that way too: We are French and we have our place to claim and our future to establish in France,” she said. “I’m not a foreigner. I’m French. I want to live in France, I love this country. Even if it has trouble liking us, we are going to do what’s necessary to live serenely in France.”</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Unlikely To Get Gov’t Job</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Kaddour says she plans to go back to school to get a higher degree, but has all but given up hopes for a state job. And in France, that matters: the European Union says more than half of France’s gross domestic product comes from government spending — potentially curbing the work options for head scarf-wearing Muslims such as Kaddour if the ban is broadened.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">“A state job, unfortunately ...” she said, her voice trailing off. “When I go into job interviews, I wear my head scarf. No results.” She admits that she doesn’t always know why — it could just be her skill set isn’t sufficient — but suspects her religion plays a role, too.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Kaddour says her future career seems increasingly limited to independent, private practice work. She currently works for a small community group devoted to improving understanding of Islam, called Le Havre de Savoir, or The Haven of Knowledge, playing on the city’s name.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">At a time of double-digit unemployment rates in France, such restrictions to job access hit head scarf-wearing women especially hard: Muslim men in France don’t usually wear visible religious garb.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Sluggish Economy Hurts Cause</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Ahmed Jaballah, the head of the Union of Islamic Organizations of France, a major Muslim group that helped organize the conference, said the “rather morose ambience” over France’s sluggish economic growth recently hasn’t helped Muslims’ aspirations, suggesting that a search for scapegoats is politically appealing. He said he’s concerned about the government’s plans.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">“Unfortunately, Muslims have the impression today that secularism is being shaped based on Muslim practices, and that’s worrisome,” he said in an interview. “Everybody always talks about secularism, how it’s not just about Muslims. But in fact, Muslims are targeted. Nobody is fooled.”</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">“Muslims wonder: Can we trust secularism?” he said. “Remember the French slogan: ‘Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite.’ Today, we want this fraternity to be real.”</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">© Copyright (c)</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>source:</strong><a href="http://www.theprovince.com/life/France+considers+broader+Muslim+head+scarf+private+sector+jobs/8178267/story.html" target="_blank">http://www.theprovince.com/life/France+considers+broader+Muslim+head+scarf+private+sector+jobs/8178267/story.html</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 182210, member: 884"] [COLOR="Navy"][B] [SIZE="5"]Muslims worried as France considers extending head scarf ban to private sector jobs[/SIZE] The Associated Press - April 1, 2013 10:05 AM LE BOURGET, France [/B]— Because of her choice to wear a head scarf, Samia Kaddour, a Muslim, has all but abandoned trying to land a government job in France. Soon, some private sector jobs could be off limits, too. French President Francois Hollande says he wants a new law that could extend restrictions on the wearing of prominent religious symbols in state jobs into the private sector. His new tack comes after a top French court ruled in March that a daycare operator that gets some state funding unfairly fired a woman in a head scarf, sparking a political backlash. As Christians celebrated Easter on Sunday, Kaddour attended the four-day Annual Meeting of Muslims of France in Le Bourget, north of Paris. The convention, which last year drew some 160,000 faithful and was expected to grow this year, is billed as the largest annual gathering of its kind in Europe. It is in its 30th year and ended Monday. [B]Bans Grow on Religious Symbols[/B] French law bars state employees from wearing prominent religious symbols such as Muslim head scarves, Jewish skullcaps or large Christian crosses in public schools, welfare offices or other government facilities. Two years ago, France banned Muslim veils that cover faces, such as the niqab, which has a slit for the eyes, or the mesh-screen burka, from being worn anywhere in public. Meeting leaders say France has made progress in accepting Muslims and noted that, unlike 30 years ago, women wearing head scarves today rarely draw suspicion, scowls or curiosity. [B]Religious Expression Crimped[/B] Still, many Muslims — and even some Roman Catholics and Jews — fear France’s insistence on secular values first enshrined in the French Revolution more than two centuries ago is unfairly crimping their ability to express their religious beliefs freely. They also worry that Hollande’s Socialist government, like a conservative one before it, wants to score political points. [B]Islamophobia?[/B] Most mainstream politicians insist Islam is not being targeted. But a backlash erupted after the Court of Cassation ruled in March that Baby Loup, a private-sector daycare operator that gets some state funding, unfairly fired a woman who wore a head scarf to work. The far-right railed at the decision, and even Interior Minister Manuel Valls expressed regret over it. Wading into the debate in a prime-time TV interview on Thursday, Hollande suggested new limits are needed on Muslim head scarves, saying that “when there is contact with children, in what we call public service of early childhood ... there should be a certain similarity to what exists in (public) school.” “I think the law should get involved,” he added. Many Muslims fear an encroaching Islamophobia, while proponents of such measures insist they counter extremism and act as a rampart to protect France’s identity against inequality. Polls show that most French people support at least some restrictions on religious symbols. [B]Growing Muslim Population[/B] France, with an estimated five million to six million Muslims whose families mostly have origins in former French colonies in North Africa, is at the forefront of addressing the challenges that many European countries are facing about how to integrate their sizable ethnic and religious minorities on a continent where white Christians have dominated the political landscape for centuries. [B] ‘Don’t Panic, I’m Muslim’[/B] Bristling against stereotypes in many corners of the West that Muslims are closet radicals or even terrorists, leaders of the convention in Le Bourget preached peace and justice. And after prayers and praise of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, convention leaders led a song in Arabic in a vast meeting hall with thousands in the audience — and some up on the dais waved French flags. In another convention hall, vendors offered items such as head scarves, sweet pastries or T-shirts emblazoned with the saying “Don’t Panic, I’m Muslim,” while mothers pushing strollers and others wandered through the crowd. Nearby, men knelt in rhythmic unison for afternoon prayers. Several other stalls took up political issues such as support for Palestinians or war-weary Syrians. In an interview, Kaddour said many Muslims regret that their faith is in the political cross-currents again in France. “Islam has become a political instrument,” said the 26-year-old, who is a community activist from the English Channel port city of Le Havre and one of 10 children of Algerian-born parents who moved to France for plentiful jobs during its economic boom times decades ago. “Islam is always brandished whenever there is internal political discord.” “I’m not discouraged enough yet to want to leave France — many others feel that way too: We are French and we have our place to claim and our future to establish in France,” she said. “I’m not a foreigner. I’m French. I want to live in France, I love this country. Even if it has trouble liking us, we are going to do what’s necessary to live serenely in France.” [B]Unlikely To Get Gov’t Job[/B] Kaddour says she plans to go back to school to get a higher degree, but has all but given up hopes for a state job. And in France, that matters: the European Union says more than half of France’s gross domestic product comes from government spending — potentially curbing the work options for head scarf-wearing Muslims such as Kaddour if the ban is broadened. “A state job, unfortunately ...” she said, her voice trailing off. “When I go into job interviews, I wear my head scarf. No results.” She admits that she doesn’t always know why — it could just be her skill set isn’t sufficient — but suspects her religion plays a role, too. Kaddour says her future career seems increasingly limited to independent, private practice work. She currently works for a small community group devoted to improving understanding of Islam, called Le Havre de Savoir, or The Haven of Knowledge, playing on the city’s name. At a time of double-digit unemployment rates in France, such restrictions to job access hit head scarf-wearing women especially hard: Muslim men in France don’t usually wear visible religious garb. [B]Sluggish Economy Hurts Cause[/B] Ahmed Jaballah, the head of the Union of Islamic Organizations of France, a major Muslim group that helped organize the conference, said the “rather morose ambience” over France’s sluggish economic growth recently hasn’t helped Muslims’ aspirations, suggesting that a search for scapegoats is politically appealing. He said he’s concerned about the government’s plans. “Unfortunately, Muslims have the impression today that secularism is being shaped based on Muslim practices, and that’s worrisome,” he said in an interview. “Everybody always talks about secularism, how it’s not just about Muslims. But in fact, Muslims are targeted. Nobody is fooled.” “Muslims wonder: Can we trust secularism?” he said. “Remember the French slogan: ‘Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite.’ Today, we want this fraternity to be real.” © Copyright (c) [B]source:[/B][url]http://www.theprovince.com/life/France+considers+broader+Muslim+head+scarf+private+sector+jobs/8178267/story.html[/url][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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