French students expelled for wearing headscarves
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Two female students in France have become the first to be expelled under a new law banning overt religious symbols in public schools.
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SAINT-OUEN, France Sept. 3, 2004 - For some French Muslims, two worlds collided as the ban on wearing Islamic head scarves in public schools took effect.
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It was easier for 16-year-old Nadia Arabi to remove her Islamic head scarf Thursday than to defy a new law banning religious signs in the classroom, or to risk contempt for breaking a national chain of ...
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BAGHDAD, Aug 29  - For the first time since the kidnappings of foreigners started in Iraq in April, hostage takers have set conditions external to the country by demanding that France lift a ban on Islamic headscarves in state schools.
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A Muslim schoolgirl has bowed to France&#39;s ban on Islamic headscarves in state schools by returning to class and removing her veil to reveal a head shaved bald in protest.
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The kidnapping of two French journalists  in Iraq has injected new tension into France's debate over  banning Islamic headscarves in schools just as Paris was hoping  for a smooth start to the school year this week.
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Two Muslim girls were expelled Wednesday from high school for refusing to remove their head scarf -- the fourth such expulsions in two days as officials began taking action against
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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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France has quietly begun expelling Muslim girls for wearing head scarves to public schools in defiance of a new law banning conspicuous religious symbols, treading carefully for fear of endangering two French hostages in Iraq.
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For some French Muslims, two worlds collided as the ban on wearing Islamic head scarves in public schools took effect. Many described Thursday as crunch day, when they were forced to question the meaning of being Muslim in a Roman Catholic country where life since Sept. 11, 2001, has become more tense and divisive.
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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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PARIS - French school authorities xpelled two Muslim girls and threatened to do the same to two more on Wednesday for refusing to remove their headscarves in class.
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The lifting of a ban on Islamic head scarves at universities faced fierce opposition from the secular establishment.
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A Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday chastised France for using expulsions to counter terrorism, saying when individuals are sent to countries where they risk torture, it seriously violates France's obligations under international law.
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A student who took part in a Civil War re-enactment was arrested and could get expelled after a replica musket was found in his car at school.
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Three French Sikh schoolboys go to court over their exclusion from school for wearing head coverings.
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Three students were suspended from school in Kosovo this week for wearing Muslim headscarves, reflecting a debate that is echoing across Europe and complicating the province's quest for independence.