Sentences with word «kirpan»

No doubt some people in Quebec still resent the SCC's holding about kirpans in schools, but since there was no evidence of offensive use of them, the ruling was pretty predictable (and right).

How do they feel about Sikhs wearing kirpans while playing soccer?

The strongest legal argument in favour of a ban on niqab's and burqa's would be on the basis of security (i.e. there is a legitimate state objective in preventing people from obscuring ones identity in public), but after the Gubaj Singh kirpan case I don't see that flying.

I think that the argument that there arent any cases of kirpans being used as weapons is pretty weak.

I have not seen news stories of people using kirpans against others.

[5] The central question is whether principles of parliamentary privilege allow the National Assembly to exclude kirpans from its precincts or whether constitutional rights such as the freedom of religion and expression preclude the Assembly from excluding them.

or naqib or kirpan etc..

But representatives of the Sikh community in northern California say the dulled kirpans pose no threat because they are kept in their sheaths and usually are worn under clothing.

Officials of the Livingston, Calif., school district are at odds with members of the Sikh religion about whether students of that faith should be allowed to carry symbolic daggers, called kirpans, under their clothing.

Keywords: kirpan kesh kachera kangha kara The worksheets can be adapted for own use.

The students then spend five to six more class periods examining the question of whether a school district that prohibited Sikh school children from bringing a metal bladed kirpan onto school grounds violated the Sikh school children's first amendment right to exercise their religion freely.

«This question touches on the presence of Islamic headscarves and Sikh kirpans in the school system, crucifixes in the courtroom and school, Sikh turbans in the workplace, and Jewish succahs on condominium balconies.

Subsequently the Parti Québécois tabled a motion yesterday respecting kirpans, and today Quebec's Liberal government has said it will support that motion.

Canadian courts have often pushed back at attempts to infringe on that right, in cases involving niqabs and kirpans, for instance.

In this respect the burqa is comparable to two other habits of dress that come to mind: that of Sikh men, who refuse to cut their hair, who wear the kara and carry the kirpan; and that of Christian religious, with their cowls and rosaries and scapulars.

They contend that the kirpans are religious symbols protected by the First Amendment's clause on free exercise of religion.

For this civic learning opportunity, a classroom of students first spends one or two class periods learning about Sikhs, Sikhism, and the kirpan.

(A kirpan is a ceremonial metal bladed sword or dagger that is worn by Baptized Sikhs; with a Sikh being someone who believes in Sikhism a monotheistic religion which originated during the 15th century in the Punjab region of South Asia).

I honestly don't understand how we can reasonably accomodate the kirpan but not marijuana use.

Secondly, it shouldnt be that surprising that there arent that many as there are only 278,000 Sikhs in a population of 30 million (of which only some wear the kirpan).

It is not harmful to others to have someone wearing a kirpan.

In deciding that reasonable accomodation could be made for the kirpan the court did delve into the merits of that rule and decided that it was outweighed by religious freedom.

Has anyone playing soccer ever used his kirpan in anger in connection with the game?

I omitted one complication, which in this instance is not applicable, namely the kirpan exception.

Over the past decade, there have been numerous controversies in Quebec society over how much space should be afforded religious symbols in public institutions, whether it be the right of practicing Muslim girls to wear the hijab headscarf in class or the right of young Sikh men to show up at school wearing the ceremonial dagger or kirpan.

On the other hand, TSA does forbid taking a kirpan into the secure zone, a matter which has so far not been litigated.

In Singh v. Thompson, 36 F. 3d 1102, it was ruled that a prohibition against knives (in school), in that instance, violates the Free Exercise clause (the kirpan must be worn at all times).

Toronto will have the first court in Canada which will have a formal policy for the kirpan, a ceremonial dagger worn by observant Sikhs.

I'm pretty sure that most people in Quebec think the kirpan case was wrongly decided by the SCC, while most in the ROC think it was right.

Other courts in Canada may allow the kirpan, including the Supreme Court of Canada, but do not yet have formal procedures in place.

However, some critics who welcome the Bill, such as the Quebec Council on the Status of Women, say it has not gone far enough to truly promote secularism, because it does not prohibit public service employees from wearing religious symbols such as crosses, kirpan, head coverings and so forth.

Cases have tended to be dealt with in one of two ways: either as religious claims in tension with government objectives in policy or law, such as a driver's licence exemption request [2]; or as religious claims that risk harm to others or exact a public cost, such as permitting a kirpan in public school.

«ve gotten to your note on the kirpan in Quebec rather belatedly.

As readers may recall, a few weeks ago a delegation of Sikhs, invited to the Quebec National Assembly to make a presentation to a committee, was turned away by security when they declined to surrender their kirpans.

[Google Translate: That the National Assembly fully supports the decision by its Directorate of Security to prohibit the wearing of the kirpan in consultations on Bill 94, An Act establishing the guidelines governing requests for accommodation in the Administration and in some institutions, thus applying the principle of state neutrality.

I think the issue with the kirpan and Quebec is more fundamentally political than legal.

That the National Assembly fully supports the decision by its Directorate of Security to prohibit the wearing of the kirpan in consultations on Bill 94, An Act establishing the guidelines governing requests for accommodation in the Administration and in some institutions, thus applying the principle of state neutrality.