Beneath the Veil

http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?041122on_onlineonly01

[The New Yorker] November 16, 2004--"This week in the magazine, Jane Kramer writes about the French 'veil law,' which prohibits the display of religious symbols, including Islamic head coverings, in French public schools. The law, which protects the 'sacred secularism' of French schools, has ignited controversy both in France and in the United States, where secularism in schools has recently come under fire. Here Kramer talks to The New Yorker’s Ben Greenman about what brought her to the story and what she took away from it...."