French Head Scarves Law Affecting Sikhs
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France's tiny Sikh community has fallen victim to a new law banning religious symbols from schools, with at least five Sikh students barred from classrooms for refusing to remove their turbans, officials said.
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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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For some French Muslims, two worlds collided as the ban on wearing Islamic head scarves in public schools took effect.
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By JAMEY KEATEN  PARIS - A new law in France makes it a crime for anyone who is not a professional journalist to film real-world violence and distribute the images on the Internet.
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Sikhs must respect France's new law banning conspicuous religious signs from public schools, the education minister said Tuesday, as three students who refused to remove their turbans took their case to court.
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PARIS - Some 100 to 120 girls have defied a new law banning Islamic head scarves in classrooms and are in talks with school officials trying to convince them to remove the head coverings, Education Minister Francois Fillon said Wednesday.    It was the first complete figure made public since the start of the school year last Thursday...
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MULHOUSE, France, Oct 20  - Three more Muslim schoolgirls were expelled in France Wednesday for flouting a controversial law on the wearing of religious insignia in schools.
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BEIRUT -- The militant demand that a French ban on Islamic head scarves be overturned has fueled a backlash among religious and political leaders in the Middle East, who have often been silent about hostage slayings and other terrorism.
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Like all practicing Sikhs, Gurpreet Singh Tuteja wears his turban as a sacred symbol of his faith and its values of discipline and austerity. Every morning, the Arlington County business consultant winds a long bolt of black or saffron cloth tightly around his uncut hair, where it remains until he...
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Turkey's parliament on Saturday approved the first of two constitutional amendments that would lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves in universities despite the fierce opposition of the secular establishment.
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French authorities say at least six Muslim schoolgirls have been expelled this week for defying the country&#39;s new ban on conspicuous religious symbols in the classroom by wearing Islamic headscarves.
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France will maintain its ban on Muslim scarves and other signs of religious belief in state schools, ignoring demands by the Iraqi kidnappers of two French reporters, government spokesman Jean-Francois Cope said.
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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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France's state schools grappling with a new law banning Muslim headscarves have started expelling students refusing to put education before their religion.
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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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PARIS A fragile truce between the government and Islamic organizations in France over the country&#39;s ban of Muslim head scarves in public schools appeared to hold Wednesday even though five female students have been expelled from schools for refusing to
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BOBIGNY, France -- A court ordered a high school yesterday to hold a disciplinary hearing to decide whether three Sikh boys excluded from classes for wearing turbans should be admitted or expelled.