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Labour calls for school ban on hijab

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Wednesday June 04, 2008 19:24author by Darren C Report this post to the editors

Like their counterparts in France, Ruairi Quinn and the Irish Labour Party have become disturbingly fixated on dark skinned schoolgirls wearing hijabs. Derangement, paranoia and liberal racism are now centrist political positions. Quinn's Islamophobic and racist tirade against those immigrants who don't "conform to Irish norms" (we could have fun trying to define that one) is covered in today's Irish Independent:

Muslim anger at Opposition calls for school ban on hijab

By Patricia McDonagh
Monday June 02 2008
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Related Link: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/muslim-anger-at-opposition-calls-for-school-ban-on-hijab-1394321.html

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Which one is it ?     Mike    Mon Jun 02, 2008 18:22 
   ban uniforms     Gearoid O Loingsigh    Mon Jun 02, 2008 18:43 
   Get rid of uniforms     Mike    Mon Jun 02, 2008 18:51 
   freedom     pat c    Mon Jun 02, 2008 19:42 
   "christian" society     pat c    Mon Jun 02, 2008 19:56 
   'Dark Skinned' students?     Bazooka Joe    Mon Jun 02, 2008 20:52 
   Reply to Bazooka Joe     Darren C    Mon Jun 02, 2008 21:09 
   defending the faith     wandering apostle    Mon Jun 02, 2008 23:22 
   Not strange at all     excath    Tue Jun 03, 2008 01:50 
 10   as far as I know, it is not a religious obligation to wear the hijab     atheist    Tue Jun 03, 2008 03:03 
 11   uniformity not equality     Gearoid O Loingsigh    Tue Jun 03, 2008 04:07 
 12   school uniforms     passed the leaving    Tue Jun 03, 2008 05:43 
 13   Hijabs in Irish schools shouldn't be a problem     Jim    Tue Jun 03, 2008 09:40 
 14   But...     Jim    Tue Jun 03, 2008 17:22 
 15   appeal to potential islamic terrorists....     Poormouth    Wed Jun 04, 2008 19:04 
 16   Jim youre not in the Labour party by any chance ?     Mike    Wed Jun 04, 2008 19:12 
 17   woah there jim     Chekov    Wed Jun 04, 2008 19:44 
 18   Skinhead...     Jim    Wed Jun 04, 2008 19:45 
 19   More analysis and commentary     Chekov    Wed Jun 04, 2008 20:00 
 20   I take your point on his hypocrisy chekov     atheist    Wed Jun 04, 2008 21:09 
 21   ..............     Nodin    Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:29 
 22   the hijab     Muslim girl    Fri Jun 06, 2008 13:23 
 23   In response to Muslim Girl and Labor's spin job for "silly" season     Sevinch Karaca    Fri Jun 06, 2008 18:38 
 24   Disturbing words from Ruari Quinn     Spinning Quickly    Fri Jun 06, 2008 20:31 
 25   Respect for diversity     Stuart    Fri Jun 06, 2008 21:12 
 26   to school - in school     passed the leaving    Fri Jun 06, 2008 23:39 
 27   in response to Sevinch Karaca     Muslim girl    Sat Jun 07, 2008 00:39 
 28   interpreting the Kuran     passed the leaving    Sat Jun 07, 2008 05:21 
 29   jack straw and the hijab     paul o toole    Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:30 
 30   School policies     Stuart    Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:52 
 31   school responsibility     passed the leaving    Sun Jun 08, 2008 14:20 


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