Scarf Ban Strains French, Muslim Ties
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When 12-year-old Faten Ben Debaieb returned to school after summer vacation, she faced a painful choice: take off her head scarf or be expelled.
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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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journalists they are holding hostage to try to force Paris to revoke its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools. Baldoni, has given Paris 48 hours to rescind the ban due to apply from the start of state schools on Thursday.
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Muslim countries Monday denounced the kidnapping of French journalists in Iraq, saying there is no link to a veil ban in France. A group calling itself the &quot;Islamic Army
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Millions of French pupils have begun the new school year under controversial legislation banning Muslim headscarves and other religious insignia from state schools.
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France on Tuesday expelled an Algerian-born Islamic prayer leader who condoned wife beating, part of a French campaign to punish Muslim clerics preaching violence.
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PARIS French Muslims are not blaming their government for the recent kidnapping of two journalists in Iraq. The Islamic militants who seized the reporters two weeks ago are demanding that France repeal its ban on headscarves in schools.
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Two Muslim girls who refused to remove their head scarves in class have been expelled from their schools, and two more risked the same fate Wednesday as officials began taking action against those who defy a new French law banning conspicuous religious symbols from public schools.
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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 recent decision to ban the wearing of traditional Muslim headscarves in public schools - a law widely perceived in the Muslim community as an undemocratic expression of "Islamophobia" - has increased ...
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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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Two French journalists held hostage in Iraq urged the French government to revoke a ban on the Islamic scarf, as they were shown in a video on Al-Jazeera TV Monday.
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The French Education Minister, Francois Fillon, said yesterday that up to 120 Muslim girls were still disobeying the government&#39;s ban on wearing headscarves in state schools since the new school year started last week.
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The Muslim community in France has supported the government ban on headscarfs, but, asks Hugh Schofield in Paris, was that unity based on fear of a backlash?
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As Paris lobbied the Arab world in a desperate bid to save two reporters kidnapped in Iraq to demand the lifting of a controversial headscarf ban in France, French Muslim leaders in Baghdad to mediate for their ...
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PARIS - Millions of French students returned to school Thursday as a new law that bans Islamic head scarves from classrooms went into effect amid demands by Islamic radicals holding two French hostages in Iraq that the law be scrapped.    Muslim leaders in France, who had largely opposed the law, urged calm for the return to class...
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Three more Muslim schoolgirls were expelled in France on Wednesday for flouting a controversial law on the wearing of religious insignia in schools.