<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi, <div><br></div><div>based on my personal experience I do agree with Beresford Mayor that religion and language issues raise emotions.<div><br></div><div>Comparing religion and language (as "hot potatoes" in political debates) might however be tricky - while a<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> state can be neutral on the question of religion, no state can be neutral on the question of language, since communication is </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">essential to the functioning of any state, liberal democratic or otherwise </span>(As far as I remember, Choudhry has been examining this in his "<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Managing linguistic nationalism through constitutional </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">design: Lessons from South-Asia" from 2009)</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">What do you think? <br></font></div><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>Maarja Siiner, PhD, University of Tartu, Estonia</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On 23/11/2012, at 22.52, <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hello, Language Policy List. <br>hfs wants you to check this out on Max 104.9<br> <a href="http://www.max1049.ca/localnews/story.aspx?ID=1823892">http://www.max1049.ca/localnews/story.aspx?ID=1823892</a><br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>This message came to you by way of the lgpolicy-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu">lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu</a><br>To manage your subscription unsubscribe, or arrange digest format: https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>