To: Sweet_Sunflower29
This problem arose when I was a visiting professor in Turkey. Turkish law prohibits wearing headscarves (hijabs) on government property, including universities. Some of the university women wor them anyway (the law wasn't really enforced), and insisted that they looked that way, so the photos on their ID cards should include the hijabs. It resulted in a riot on another campus that led to two student deaths. The next day my campus was covered with cops in riot gear, and there was a tank parked at the main gate.
29 posted on
01/15/2004 7:42:05 PM PST by
JoeFromSidney
(All political power grows from the barrel of a gun. -- Mao Zedong. That's why the 2nd Amendment.)
To: JoeFromSidney
Turkey knows what a problem they can become and where you have to nip it in the bud.
32 posted on
01/15/2004 7:56:23 PM PST by
FITZ
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