A Tip of the hat (or whatever)

A tip of the hat to the young lady in Strasbourg France who shaved her head!
Caught between the Scylla of her religious obligations and the Charybidis of the French law, she chose a third way. Rather than comply with one, but not both, of the competing forces, the young Muslim girl has found a way to be in compliance with both religious and secular rules. As a shave-pate, she displays no hair (very important, somehow, for observant Muslims), while not wearing a headscarf (very important, somehow, for the French gov't). With perhaps a touch of sarcasm, she has stepped outside the conflict. The message I get, and which I hope others get as well, is that both sides in this dispute have opted for form over substance, while ignoring the needs of the individuals involved. Rather than think of the needs of the collectivist institutions, religious and secular, perhaps it is time to turn our attention to the needs of the people, spiritual and educational.
Her solution is vastly superior to a suggestion I made to the French government a few months ago. Seeing that the law called for a ban on 'large crucifixes, skullcaps (yarmulke) and headscarfs', I proposed that the law should go on to define just what dimensions of the specified items ought to be. My opening suggestion was: crucifixes, no more than five cm in the long axis; yarmulke, no more than 5 cm in diameter; headscarves, no more than 10 cm square. Properly displayed, I believe these could all become popular fashion articles. In fact, if one were so disposed, one could wear all three simultaneously!
However, my suggestion went unheeded. Instead, we can hope to see large numbers of shaven heads in the schools of France in the near future. I hope the young ladies do not forget to apply sunblock to their scalps.
I wonder what the observant Jewish young men can come up with as clever as this?