Headscarf optional at Britain's first state-funded Islamic school
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Irish-Moroccan or Egyptian-English, with headscarf or without, the diverse students at Britain's first state-funded Islamic school are at the vanguard of a trend toward a distinctly European Muslim culture.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair announced Monday $2 million in funding to back Islamic studies at British universities as he urged the public to listen to the religion's moderate scholars rather than to its radicals.
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PARIS Sept. 2, 2004 - France&#39;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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Asasma Butt walked up to the entrance of the LycÃ©e Rabelais in northern Paris last Thursday - the first day of school for students across France â-he did something she didn&#39;t want to do.
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A Brighton Muslim leader says he does not believe an East Sussex Islamic school is involved in terror.
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A public school in New York that will teach Arabic language and culture opened Tuesday amid accusations that it will impose a radical Islamist agenda in its classrooms.
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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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The Turkish parliament early Thursday adopted a constitutional amendment allowing women to wear Islamic headscarves in universities, a controversial move that still had to be ratified, assembly deputy speaker Nevzat Pakdil announced.
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ANKARA, Feb 11 (IPS) - Thanks to an alliance between the ruling Justice  and Development (AK) and Nationalist Action (MH) parties, the  Turkish Grand National Assembly has approved legislation to lift  the ban on wearing the Muslim headscarf for female students at  universities.
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British foreign policy and in particular the Iraq war has made it easier for Islamist extremists to recruit young British Muslims, according to a report released here Thursday.
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A primary school says it is the first to open a baby care unit which is not run by a private firm.
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Schools in England are given religious teaching guidelines aimed at promoting "understanding and respect".
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Britain's army forces are to get their first Muslim chaplain, a defense ministry source was quoted as saying.
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France's bold effort to rein 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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Lloyds TSB becomes the first High Street to offer the UK's Muslims a current account compatible with Islamic law.
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Turkey's Islamist-rooted ruling party, thanks to a deal with the nationalist opposition, on Tuesday submitted to parliament a draft amendment to allow the Islamic headscarf in universities, making good on a six-year-old electoral promise.
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STRASBOURG, France  - A Muslim schoolgirl bowed to  France's ban on Islamic headscarves in state schools on Friday  by returning to class and removing her veil to reveal a head  shaved bald in protest.