A Montreal school board went too far in imposing a blanket ban on the wearing of Sikh ceremonial daggers by students, says the Supreme Court of Canada.

In an 8-0 judgment Thursday, the court overturned a decision that barred teenager Gurbaj Singh Multani from wearing the dagger, known as a kirpan, to class.

Okay, so religious freedom allows me to wear a cross to school, the Jewish kid to wear a yarmulke, the Muslim girl to wear hijab. What do those three things have in common? They're not weapons!

Let's say some little Sikh kid gets beat up by an older, larger classmate. Not necessarily for cultural reasons, but just because he's easy pickings. Said bully gets hold of the dagger. What do you see happening? Do you think the bully will respect it because it is a religious symbol? Or do you rather think he will take somebody's eye out with it? A kid should not be bringing a weapon to school. Period. When I was in school, we had an American kid in my class. Should he have been able to bring a gun to school, because it is part of the culture of his homeland that he has the right to bear arms (okay, maybe not at age ten, but certainly in late highschool/early college)?

I have mentioned before that my husband is Scottish. On several occasions while living in Scotland, he had to rent a kilt and all the fixings and trappings that go with it. One of those trappings is a dagger that rests in the sock. The tux rental company provides a fake. The outfit would not be complete without it - but there was no need to have a real one. Wouldn't that have been a better judgement to make in this case?

Once again, Canada's high-flown multicultural ideals are on the path to getting someone killed. Hooray for inclusiveness.