Canada's Supreme Court has ruled that Sikh students should be allowed to bring daggers to school
BBC News:
In an 8-0 judgement, the court reversed the ruling of a Montreal school board, which banned Gurbaj Singh Multani from wearing his dagger, known as a kirpan.
The kirpan is deemed sacred by Sikhs as a symbol of power and truth.
School authorities banned the kirpan in 2001 after an objection by a parent concerned about pupil security.
Announcing the judgement, the Supreme Court said that a total ban on kirpans violated the country's Charter of Rights.
The charter guarantees total religious freedom within Canada.
"Religious tolerance is a very important value of Canadian society," Justice Louise Charron wrote in the judgement.
"If some students consider it unfair that Gurbaj Singh may wear his kirpan to school, it is incumbent on the schools to discharge their obligation to instil in their students this value that is... at the very foundation of our democracy."
The government of Quebec had backed the Montreal school board, which imposed the ban.
Parents campaigning for tighter restrictions on weapons in school were dismayed by the ruling.
"My first reaction as a parent is a feeling of insecurity," Claude Bouchard of the Quebec Federation of Parents' Committees, told Reuters news agency.
"As a parent, is the life and safety of a child more important than religious freedom? I think so."
The insanity known as multiculturalism strikes again.
posted by Adam Lawson @ 9:40 AM
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2 Comments:
So now it is deemed some kind of fucking "right" to wear a dagger to school.
This guy is lucky he doesn't attend an inner city school -- he wouldn't make it past the metal detector.
You have to read the opinion to believe it -- the guy who wrote must be positively effeminate.
The is like something out of The Onion! How can any sane person justify allowing a student to carry a weapon to school? And what kind of religion is Sikhism if it requires its followers to carry weapons?
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