Speech by Marc Blondel - National Federation of the Free Thought

Chevalier De La Barre Commemoration (Libre Pensee)
Speech by Keith Porteous Wood (English version) at Abbeville, France, on 4 July 2010

A 14 year old Sikh boy has been withdrawn from Compton School in Barnet, North London amid claims of religious discrimination after the school refused to permit him to carry a ceremonial kirpan dagger. When he arrived for school, he was asked whether he was carrying the 5in kirpan. When he said (...)