Originally posted by lightng
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I would like to add that I am putting all my resources into an epic legal crusade to allow my child to wear her sickle to school. We are a family of druids and the sickle is necessary to our faith. As a practising druid I am prepared to make sacrifices for my child.
... right, thats the last single malt for tonight and last crap post.
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Originally posted by Tarquin Farquhar View PostAs a final word I'd like to point people at Hardeep Singh's rational and thoughtful column in the Guardian, where he argues that schoolchildren should not be allowed to carry knives to school, even if they are Sikhs.
And actually I think this is important, and is not just "light relief".
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Originally posted by Tarquin Farquhar View PostHardeep Singh's column that I linked to just above is well worth reading. In it he notes among other good points that a Sikh child may wear a Kirpan into school with no intention of ever using it, but other children may take it from him and use it.
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Hardeep Singh's column that I linked to just above is well worth reading. In it he notes among other good points that a Sikh child may wear a Kirpan into school with no intention of ever using it, but other children may take it from him and use it.
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So, what happens if a Sikh tries to go through securty at an airport wearing a kirpan? They may plead the religious right and discrimination, but no-one will let them on a plane, surely?
I suspect they pack them in their luggage which goes into the hold, but then they are not 'wearing' it. In which, it can't be right that they should be able to wear them into school.
I don't for one minute believe they would intend using them for violence, but I can't help feeling that other kids will carry knives simply because of the argument that other kids are allowed too.
I feel a knowledge gap exists here...any of our offshore readers care to comment?
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As a final word I'd like to point people at Hardeep Singh's rational and thoughtful column in the Guardian, where he argues that schoolchildren should not be allowed to carry knives to school, even if they are Sikhs.
And actually I think this is important, and is not just "light relief".
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Shouldn't Masons be entitled to carry four foot Knights Templar swords?
Darn, the coffee machine is out of cups again. Now where did I put that grail?
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostFTFY - Eh Up!Last edited by DaveB; 8 February 2010, 13:55.
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Originally posted by Tarquin Farquhar View PostIMHO as a Scot, there is not the same need for a kilt-wearer to have a real Sgian Dubh as there is for a sikh to have a real Kirpan. In the case of Highland dress it is just that, dress. It makes you feel like Rob Roy and William Wallace (who probably never saw a kilt anyway), but you don't need to play at being them by carrying a real weapon. Better get one of those dress ones that have the handle of a Sgian Dubh for show, but the body of a bottle-opener.
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Originally posted by Cliphead View PostThe Knife Act (Scotland) promises 6 months imprisonment to
anybody wearing a 3"+ (or was it 2 1/2"?) knife without good reason. Most kilt wearers including myself wear a safety Sgian Dubh which looks and feels like the real thing but has no metal blade.
I haven't heard of anybody up here getting into trouble for wearing the real thing but I'm not going to take any chances.
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Originally posted by DS23 View Posthome grown though. none of that russian stuff.
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