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<p>Just a stupid question: do you put ethnicity and religion as
questionnaire fields in your registration form?</p>
<p>If you don't ask, you don't know. And if you have no indication
to suspect "such dangerous behaviour as being muslim" (sic) ...
there's no indication to ban them from whatever course. It has
never been your job to do an identity check, and even the act of
asking... I don't think you even have the right to investigate
their answers.</p>
<p>Obviously, you could put a waiver in your registration form that
members are not allowed to apply their skills developed in this
hackerspace to engage in terrorist or other forms of illegal
activity. You could even have fun in writing it in such a broad or
silly way that lawyers would have a hell of a time applying it in
court... <br>
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<p>If anyone ever comments on the validity of this, just ask the
question how you should validate if one is muslim? (just as a pun:
according to those muslims that engage in terrorist activity, all
other muslims are not true muslims, and it is allowed to lie
against "kufar" - so the muslim not respecting you will deny being
a muslim and you will stigmatize the honest ones with no
malintentions)<br>
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Just my thaught<br>
Jurgen<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22-07-16 23:05, Sparr wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I've been on the losing side of lighter versions of
this argument a few times over the past ten years, at various
hackerspaces. A lot of people claim that they think that the law
trumps a space's charter or mission statement.
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<div>Here in the USA, we're looking at a future where it is
scarily plausible that some segment of the population will be
banned from a lot of activities, which might include things
such as "taking machine shop classes" or "working with
explosive gases".<br>
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When your state or federal legislature passes a law, or your
president issues an executive order, that says Muslims (or
some ethnic minority) can't do those things, where will you
stand on whether your space follows that law or not?</div>
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