22nd January 2004, 8:29 PM
For France the people doing this are conservative, not liberal, I'm pretty sure... remember Europe is not strongly religious. They've gotten over it. They are just somewhat religious and the numbers of people that go to church is small... and I'd think that such laws as this, which target some smaller, minority, and mostly immigrant, groups would more be conservative than liberal... I wouldn't think that liberals would usually ban freedom of expression like that... the headscarves? Maybe. Doubtful but maybe. But the rest of that stuff? Doesn't seem it to me, no...