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The French Ban On Burqas Went Into Affect on Monday (Disturbing Video-Caution)

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PARIS, April 11 (Reuters) – France’s ban on full face veils, a first in Europe, went into force on Monday, exposing anyone who wears the Muslim niqab or burqa in public to fines of 150 euros ($216).

A Muslim property dealer, who is urging women to keep wearing the veil if they want to, has urged supporters to go to Notre Dame cathedral in central Paris for a silent prayer during the day, and is also offering to help people pay the fines.

France’s five-million-strong Muslim minority is Western Europe’s largest, but fewer than 2,000 women are believed actually to wear a full face veil.

Many Muslim leaders have said they support neither the veil nor the law banning it.

The timing is all the more sensitive after France’s ruling political party, President Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP, called a debate on the place of Islam in France, a move that some say risked stigmatising a portion of the population.

Police received a guide last week to help implement the ban. It tells them not to remove veils by force. It also notes that the ban does not apply inside private cars but reminds policemen such cases can be dealt with under road safety rules.

Rachid Nekkaz, the man who called for the Notre Dame prayer, said in a webcast that he was putting a property worth around two million euros up for sale to help fund his campaign.

“I am calling on all free women who so wish, to wear the veil in the street and engage in civil disobedience,” he said.

French police arrested 59 people on Saturday who turned up for a banned protest over the veil ban, one of them on arrival in France from Britain, according to a police spokesman. (Writing by Brian Love; Editing by Jon Boyle)

Remember, often times the wearing of these Burqas is forced:

A Couple of Changes for the Readers to Note

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I have added some PAGES to the top right of the blog. Pictured below is a screen shot with an arrow pointing to one of the changed page’s position as well as three new pages that deal with a few topics coming up in conversation, as they see to do always — Good Grief! I moved my Conspiracy Debunker page over (take note of the arrow pointing to it below), and to the right of that are pages dealing with debunking conspiracies surrounding 9/11 and Iraq. I may add a few more Mantra Debunking pages later. but I figured I would let you know the changes as of today. Enjoy.

 

Heard About This charter School on Hugh Hewitt Yesterday

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The following charter school is the kind talked about in WAITING FOR SUPERMAN

(Wiki) As a charter school Veritas Prep offers a Great Books education centering around fundamental texts in the Western pantheon. Veritas Prep’s philosophy includes small class size (no classroom has more than 22 students) and education using the Socratic method.

As a public school in the state of Arizona, Veritas Preparatory Academy has no entrance requirements. Interested families must apply for the school’s annual admissions lottery, which takes place in the spring of each school year. However, if a family has one child enrolled, any other children automatically receive a spot. Software designed by alumnus Joseph Irvine is used to perform these lotteries randomly. Because the academy is a charter school, it has the right to cap its enrollment. An addition in the 2010-2011 school year is one class of sixth grade.

Veritas Preparatory Academy offers few choices in its academic curriculum. 9-12th grade students may choose to study Latin/Greek, French, or Spanish. The rest of the curriculum is fixed. Students at Veritas Prep exceed all requirements for students graduating from the state of Arizona.

Veritas Preparatory Academy has recently added a 6th grade to their school.

  • 7th grade:
    • English Literature and Composition (readings include Shane, A Wind in the Willows, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Tales of the Greek Heroes, The Miracle Worker, stories by Edgar Allan Poe, and A Christmas Carol)
    • Pre-Algebra
    • Life Science (plants & fungi, single-cell & multi-cell animals)
    • Ancient History (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel, Greece, and Rome)
    • Music (including an introduction to theory, note-reading, and soprano recorder performance)
    • Latin I
    • Studio Art I (basic composition and drawing techniques)
  • 8th grade:
    • English Literature and Composition (Readings include Beowulf, The Chosen, The Lord of the Flies, The Hobbit, To Kill a Mockingbird, selections from Canterbury Tales, Legends of King Arthur, and selections from American poetry)
    • Algebra I
    • Earth Science (geology, geography, meteorology, astronomy)
    • Medieval History (England, France, the Holy Roman Empire, Islamic Civilization, the Byzantine Empire, the Crusades, the Christian Church; The Song of Roland is read)
  • Music (including more music theory and recorder ensemble performance involving soprano, alto, and tenor instruments)
    • Latin II
    • Studio Art II (including color theory and painting)
  • 9th grade:
    • Humane Letters: The American Tradition (Readings include the US Constitution and The Federalist Papers, Democracy in America, Thoreau, Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, Huckleberry Finn, My Antonia, The Old Man and the Sea, and The Great Gatsby)
    • Geometry
    • Biology
    • Music (including composition and choral performance)
    • Poetry Composition
    • Modern Language I or Latin III
  • 10th grade:
    • Humane Letters: The Rise of Modern Europe (Readings include Locke’s Second Treatise, Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, Shakespeare’s Henry V, Marx’s The Communist Manifesto, Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, and Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch)
    • Algebra II
    • Physics I : Mechanics
    • Music
    • Poetry Composition
    • Modern Language II or Latin IV
  • 11th grade:
    • Humane Letters: Ancient Greece (Readings include the Iliad and Odyssey, Sophocles, Thucydides, Plato’s Republic and selected dialogues, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, and selections from the Hebrew Bible)
    • Pre-Calculus/Calculus A
    • Physics II: Electromagnetism, Thermodynamics, Wave Motion
    • Drama
    • Art
    • Modern Language II or Ancient Greek I
  • 12th grade:
    • Humane Letters: Western Thought from the Middle Ages to Modernity (Readings include the Aeneid, Augustine’s Confessions, selections from the New Testament, Macbeth and King Lear, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, Machiavelli, Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy, and Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov)
    • Calculus B,C
    • Chemistry
    • Drama
    • Art
    • Modern Language IV or Ancient Greek II
    • Senior Thesis