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Originally posted by SecretMethod70
Well, honestly, it isn't in practice. Only in intent. The impetus for this banning was muslims. That's all I meant by that.
Thanks for keeping me honest 
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No worries. Though you may be mistaken as to the intent. I was reading about this a month or so ago and according to Chirac it was motivated by increased racial conflict in France, primarily a lengthy series of anti-Semitic crimes, the intent was to try and keep those conflicts out of the school system. Not that I am saying it will work or is the right thing to do though. If fact, I would oppose the law, it seems a bit morally and logically unsound. You may be able to hide from persecution, but masking who you are does not protect you from persecution. Instead it makes you the victim in another way entirely.
As to the ethnocentrists who think it is the height of wit to mock the French, you should keep two things in mind: the first, what you are doing is completely devoid of originality and merit; the second, what you are doing is in all likelihood a violation of the TFP's charter.