Re: [Marxism] Re: The hijab controversy

["Marvin Gandall" <marvgandall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, you're right, I did miss that comment. The issue up here has been
against public funding for religious schools -- there was a big internal
fight in the NDP over state support of the Catholic school system some
years back -- but not over their abolition, which of course would
require a much more generalized and thoroughgoing repudiation of
religious belief than exists in society right now.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Johannes Schneider" <Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxx>
To: "Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition"
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Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 6:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Re: The hijab controversy


>
> Marvin Gandall wrote:
>
> >
> > Johannes also says that "Friedrich Engels was even in favour of
> > tolerance for religious schools. In
> > 1891 he wrote...'You cannot bar the churches from founding schools
out
> > of their own money and teaching their non-sense there" (My
translation,
> > JS)'.
> >
> > This isn't in dispute. I don't think anyone is proposing the
forcible
> > closure of religious schools
>
> Paul wrote:
>
> "education is secular. This involves the abolition of religious
schools"
>
> I know Paul can speak for himself, but do I misunderstand him when I
say
> he proposes the closure of religious schools?
>
> Engels might have been wrong or today the question of religious
schools
> needs another answer, but I think it is wrong to see an agreement,
where
> there is in fact some disagreement in the immediate demands to raise.
>
> Johannes
>
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