Teaching python to non-programmers

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:46:05 +0100, Paul Rudin wrote:

> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> writes:
> 
>> On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:42:14 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:
>>
>>> In middle-eastern society women are expected to dress heavier than in
>>> the West. A few years ago a girl went to school in France with a scarf
>>> and she was penalized.
>>
>> Citation please. I think this is bogus...
> 
> This is not bogus. France has quite a strong tradition of keeping the
> education system secular and has passed a law regarding the wearing of
> "ostentatious" religious symbols in public schools, which also affects
> things like the wearing of crosses.
> 
> Wikipedia has plenty on this...
> 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_scarf_controversy_in_France>


Which does not differ that much from the rest of my post, which you 
deleted. It wasn't just a scarf, it was a religious head-covering, the 
hijab, and despite the original context which suggests that the poor girl 
happened to turn up to school one day with a scarf and was penalized just 
for bringing it to school, the three girls were asked to remove their 
hijabs, and were only penalized when they refused to obey school rules.

I don't know where I stand on the hijab in general, but in this specific 
case, I stand by my skepticism about Rustom's description.



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