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Calls to ban the Sikh kirpan are irrational | Letter

Retired judge Hugh Howard says any review would have to include the Scottish sgian-dubh and swords worn by military personnel at service eventsAs a judge, I wrote a scenario for a recruitment exercise for a judicial appointments commission where candidates had to adjudicate between a Sikh boy who wanted to wear the kirpan and his Church of England faith school that wanted to exclude it (Sikhs wary of UK backlash as they condemn ‘moment of madness’, 2 June). It was…

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