http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/19/world/europe/19france.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=veil&st=cse&oref=slogin
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:44 AMSubject: A Veil Closes France's Door to CitizenshipTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
The case of Faiza Silmi exists at the intersection of Church and State. To view it only through the lens of her membership in a religious community is to miss the point. She is now a resident alien in France, a legal immigrant. What interest has she manifested in the affairs of state? I what way would she participate as part of the collective sovereign of France? It is no light thing to be a citizen of a democracy; the state's cares are our cares, the state's sins are our sins. Citizenship should not be lightly bestowed on those who disdain to participate.
Barry Levine
1142 Brown Ave
Lafayette, CA 94549
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