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BEDOK VIEW SECONDARY SCHOOL PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2019 CANDIDATE NAME REGISTER NUMBER CLASS HUMANITIES 2272/01, 2273/01 Secondary Four Express / Five Normal (Academic) 27 August 2019 Paper 1 Social Studies 1 hour 45 minutes Additional Materials: Foolscap Paper Mark Page READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write all answers on the foolscap paper provided. Write in dark blue or black pen. Do not use staples, paper clips, glue or correction fluid. Please begin your response to each question on a fresh page. Section A Answer all parts of Question 1. Section B Answer one question. Write all answers on the foolscap paper provided. The total number of marks is given in bracket [ ] at the end of each question or part question. Setter: Mr Fathul Rahman Parent’s / Guardian’s Signature: ………………….…………... This question paper consists of 7 printed pages and 1 blank page/s, including this cover page. Do not turn over the page until you are told to do so.

2 BV4E5NSSPRELIM 2019 Section A (Source Based Case Study) Question 1 is compulsory. Study the Background Information and the sources carefully, and then answer all the questions. You may use any of the sources to help you answer the questions, in addition to those sources you are told to use. In answering the questions you should use your knowledge of the topic to help you interpret and evaluate the sources. 1 (a) Study Source A. Do you think the cartoonist is a supporter or an opponent of the burkini ban? Explain your answer. [6] (b) Study Source B. Why do you think this statement was made at this time? Explain your answer. [6] (c) Study Sources C and D Would the author in Source D agree with the author in Source C? Explain your answer. [7] (d) Study Source E and F. Having read Source E, are you surprised by Source F? Explain your answer. [6] (e) Study all sources. How far do the sources show that the burkini threatens social stability in France? Explain your answer. [10]

3 BV4E5NSSPRELIM 2019 [Turn over Was the banning of the burkini justified? BACKGROUND INFORMATION Study the following sources to find out if Singapore is ready to face the terrorist threat. Read this carefully. It may help you to answer some of the questions. On 28 July 2016, the ‘burkini ban’ in France made international headlines after photographs emerged of armed police surrounding a veiled woman on a Nice beach, fining her and looking on as she removed her tunic. This caused public anger, especially among the Muslim community in France, who saw the ban as an act of religious discrimination. The United Nations has also condemned the burkini bans, in light of the rising number of terror attacks in public places in France. They were concerned that the ban would further anger the Muslim militants. The French government however, viewed the ban as necessary to preserve French identity and to promote the French policy of secularism where there is a clear separation of religion from the state. The majority of the French saw the burkini as a sign that the Muslim immigrant community in France is threatening the French culture and way of life. The ‘burkini ban’, as it came to be known was eventually overturned by France’s top administrative court but the various interest groups in French society are still debating if France should ban the burkini. Study the following sources to find out if the decision to ban the burkini was justified.

4 BV4E5NSSPRELIM 2019 Source A: A cartoon published by an internationally recognised newspaper in 2016, entitled ‘We Are Here To Help You’ Source B: Adapted from an article by Ahedda Zanetti, the creator of the burkini, in response to the banning of the burkini in France, published in August 2016 When I invented the burkini it was to give women freedom, not to take it away. I wanted to do something positive – and anyone can wear this, Christian, Jewish, Hindus. It’s just a garment to suit a modest person, or someone who has skin cancer, or a new mother who doesn’t want to wear a bikini, it’s not symbolising Islam. This negativity that is happening now and what is happening in France makes me so sad. I think they have misunderstood a garment that is so positive – it symbolises leisure and happiness and fun and fitness and health ..This has given women freedom, and they want to take that freedom away? I would love to be in France to say this: you have misunderstood. .. a product that symbolised happiness and joyfulness and fitness, and turned it into a product of hatred.

5 BV4E5NSSPRELIM 2019 [Turn over Source C: An excerpt of an interview with the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, in response to a protest organised by French Muslim women. The burkini is a symbol of the oppression of women by the males in Islamic community. It is a dress code which is being forced on women. It is an outright public display of the refusal to assimilate, refusal to respect Western culture and the persistent complaining of the Islamic community every time they are asked to obey the law in countries where they are essentially guests. It is a symbol of oppression, not a symbol of freedom of expression. The burkini also prevents proper identification and a ban is to protect public safety, especially in the face of rising number of terror acts in our country. Source D: An excerpt from a newspaper article in the Straits Times More broadly, public expression of religious beliefs are viewed in France with distaste and suspicion, and organised religion is regarded as a retrograde step, a return to a dark past. It is tempting to blame this tendency to legislate against religion on just opportunist politicians keen to jump on any anti-Muslim bandwagon. But this underestimates the genuine popular support for secularism in France. Laws and regulations which ban outward displays of religion are adopted by the French Parliament with crushing majorities and support across the political spectrum. Seen from this perspective, the attempted ban on the burkini makes perfect sense. What the various French mayors who imposed the ban did was to uphold, as they saw it, the status of beaches as religious-free public places, where no outward displays of faith should be allowed. Retrograde- moving backwards

6 BV4E5NSSPRELIM 2019 Source E: Adapted from an article in the Washington Post, `7 uncomfortable facts about France’s burkini controversy.’ A number of French citizens have noted that the photographs (of police officers asking a Muslim woman to remove her burkini) shot in Nice this week might serve as a recruitment tool for the Islamic State. "Jihadist sympathizers themselves seem surprised that the municipal police of Nice make their propaganda for them," David Thomson, author of "The French Jihadist," said in one interview published Thursday. "For them, this is a godsend." Last week, Italy's Interior Minister said the country would not be implementing a burkini ban on public beaches, warning that such responses could "become provocations that could potentially attract attacks." Extremist groups have already used France's ban of full- face veils as justification for attacks. The very first issue of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's Inspire magazine included an article titled "The West Should Ban the Niqab Covering Its Real Face." De Feo says that at least one of the French women she knows who started wearing the veil after the 2011 ban eventually headed to Syria to join a jihadist group. Source F: Statement by Rupert Colville, a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner fo