Girl shaves head to be readmitted to school
15-year-old Cennet Doğanay was banned from classes for wearing a headscarf, as it went against the new French law banning religious signs in schools. She was only allowed into school after shaving her head. Cennet's mother said her daughter had tried everything: "a beret, a bandana, but they still refused to let her into class." Cennet told journalists: "I respect the law but the law does not respect me."
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X-ray that A-rab!
The Finnish airport operator, Finavia, may begin scanning travellers based on their religion or nationality. Speaking in an interview with Sunnuntaisuomalainen, Finavia security chief Jyri Vikström said the company may start profiling passengers if Finnish airports begin using body scanners. The profiling would look at people's behaviour at the airport, but also at their religion and nationality. Mr Vikström did not see profiling as an equality issue. However, Finavia later said in a brief statement that the company had no guidelines in place for selecting people to be body scanned based on nationality or religion. http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/htimes/domestic-news/general/9498-finland-may-profile-passengers-for-airport-body-scans-.htmlIsrael is an apartheid state
One of the myths among whites in South Africa was that “blacks want to throw us into the sea.” Many of apartheid’s practices were formally based on security, mostly those involving restrictions on movement. Thus, for example, black citizens needed permits to move around the country. During the final years of apartheid, its practices became more severe. In Israel, institutional discrimination is meant to preserve the supremacy of a group of Jewish settlers over Palestinian Arabs. As far as discriminatory practices are concerned, it is hard to find differences between white rule in South Africa and Israeli rule in the territories; for example, separate areas and separate laws for Jews and Palestinians.
