Five facts about France&#39;s Muslim headscarf ban
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- The French parliament passed the law in March to ban &quot;conspicuous symbols&quot; of faith from its state school system. Guidelines for applying the law identified Muslim headscarves, Jewish skullcaps and large
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Only about 100 French Muslim girls are breaking the new ban on headscarves at school, the education minister says.
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The relations of French officialdom have been uneasy of late. First there was the matter of the headscarf, which has been followed by a row over whether or not to ban broadcasts by the Al-Manar (The Beacon
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With two French journalists facing execution in Iraq by Islamic radicals unless France scraps an imminent headscarf ban in schools, Muslims are protesting against the hijacking of their religion by terror groups.
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France vowed Monday to press ahead with a controversial law banning Islamic head scarves in schools, despite demands by militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq that Paris revoke the ...
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A French court rules a deportation order against a radical Muslim preacher is lawful and he may be expelled again.
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France's bold effort to reign in Muslim fundamentalism was put to the test Thursday, with a new law that bans students from wearing Islamic head scarves taking force with the start of the school year.
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The French government has confirmed that the ban on Muslim headscarves will be applied on Thursday when school resumes, despite the kidnapping of two journalists in Iraq.
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France's finance minister, a presidential hopeful, says mosques need state funding and it's time for a century-old law banning financing for religious groups to be modernized, according to excerpts of a new book hitting the shelves on Thursday.
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A French Muslim delegation in Iraq trying to win the release of two French journalists held hostage by Islamic militants said Thursday they had received proof the men were alive and well. The kidnappers have demanded that Paris rescind a law banning Muslim headscarves.
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PARIS -- It was easier for 16-year-old Nadia Arabi to remove her Islamic head scarf yesterday than to defy a new law banning religious signs in the classroom, or to risk contempt for breaking a national chain of solidarity for two Frenchmen held hostage by militants in Iraq.
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ISTANBUL, Feb 4 (IPS) - Turkey's Islamic-rooted governing party is  moving ahead with hotly contested constitutional amendments that  would lift the ban on headscarves at universities. Opponents see  it as a danger-laden step undermining the currently rigid secular  regime by introducing Islamic principles that may extend far  beyond higher learning.
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The German state of Bavaria is the latest federal states to ban Muslim school teachers from wearing headscarves.
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A French law banning Islamic headscarves in schools came into force today as France intensified its diplomatic efforts to free two hostages held in Iraq by militants demanding the withdrawal of the new legislation.
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French government officials called for the release of two journalists kidnapped in Iraq by a group demanding that France rescind a ban on Islamic headscarves in the nation&#39;s schools, Agence
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France said it will maintain its law banning Muslim scarves and other signs of religious belief in state schools, rejecting a demand by the Iraqi kidnappers of two French reporters for its revocation.
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A day after a militant Islamic group holding two French journalists in Iraq demanded that France revoke a law banning Muslim head scarves in public schools, the French government vowed on Sunday not to ...