Sikhs in Indian-Kashmir protest French ban on turbans
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Several hundred Indian Sikhs Sunday staged a protest in the Himalayan region of Kashmir against a ban imposed by the French government on the wearing of religious symbols, including turbans, in schools.
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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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Adopting a Gandhian means of protest, workers of a Rajput organisation Sunday presented roses to cinema hall owners and appealed against the screening of Ashutosh Gowariker's film Jodhaa Akbar.
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Thousands of demonstrators gathered Sunday to protest Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit to this predominantly Muslim country.
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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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India has urged France to allow Sikhs living in that country to wear their traditional headgear at state schools as it is intrinsic to their faith, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday.
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PARIS -- French critics and defenders of a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools united in support of the law yesterday, pledging to stand firm against militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq who want the law revoked.
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BOBIGNY, France  - A high school that excluded three Sikh boys for wearing turbans must convene a disciplinary hearing within 15 days to decide the outcome of their cases, a French court ruled Friday.
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Muslim separatists and activists in Indian Kashmir marked International Human Rights Day by holding protest marches against alleged abuses by troops.
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A general strike is held in Indian-controlled Kashmir in protest at the planned execution of a Kashmiri man.
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French critics and defenders of a ban on  Muslim headscarves in schools united in support of the law on  Monday, pledging to stand firm against militants holding two  French journalists hostage in Iraq who want the law scrapped.
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Los Angeles Times - PARIS &#8212; Muslim women in head scarves, journalists in jeans and senators draped in tricolored sashes rallied here Monday in support of two French hostages held in Iraq by kidnappers demanding that France repeal a new ban on the Islamic head scarf in public schools.
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A French court will rule on whether a new law bans three Sikh boys from wearing the under-turban to school.
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LONDON  - Hundreds of Sikh demonstrators caused thousands of dollars worth of damage when they stormed a theatre in central England to protest a play depicting sexual abuse and murder in a Sikh temple, a spokeswoman for the theatre said Sunday.
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Thousands of people, many of them women wearing head scarves, marched in France Saturday to protest a law banning the Islamic coverings and other religious apparel in public schools.
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A top Muslim cleric has issued an edict against the Indian army for renovating mosques in Indian Kashmir and urged Muslims to resist such moves &quot;tooth and nail.&quot;
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US Sikh groups express anger over changes allowing more rigorous turban checks at airports.