i DOUBT IT...  its a very much smaller cult.

tallowood wrote on Feb 7^th, 2009 at 10:22pm:


Tallow - It was obvious - probably body language or just the fact that I'm too intuitive for my own good.  In a recent course, we had to write two unknown things (unknown to a group of 'strangers') about ourselves and pass them to the trainer. When they were being read out, I could tell straight away who the facts related to because of their body language or some other intangible reason.  I guessed the right persons three times before deciding not to spoil the fun.

French headscarf ban not discrimination, says European Court

From Deutsche Welle
Based in Strasbourg, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday, Dec. 4 that the school's move to expel the girls was not out of line, emphasizing that the girls had been able to continue their education via correspondence classes.
"It was clear that the applicants' religious convictions were fully taken into account in relation to the requirements of protecting the rights and freedoms of others and public order," the court said in a press release. Europe’s top courts have ruled in favor of a French school that expelled two Muslim girls for refusing to remove their headscarves for physical education classes. The ruling fuels the debate over secularism in France.
The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed a complaint by two French Muslim girls that their school violated their freedom of religion and their right to an education. The girls were expelled after repeatedly refusing to remove their headscarves for physical education classes.
The teacher had said that wearing a headscarf was incompatible with physical education classes. The girls, Belgin Dogru and Esma-Nur Kervanci, are French nationals and were 11 and 12 respectively when they were expelled from the school in the north-western town of Flers in 1999.




It only took 9 years but its a good decision.