French Muslims Alienated Over Head Scarves
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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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Dozens of Muslim girls have been disobeying the French government&#39;s recent ban on wearing headscarves in public schools since the school year began last week.
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30 August 2004 -- Paris said today that it will not repeal a ban on the wearing of Muslim headscarves in public schools, despite the demands of hostage-takers in Iraq holding two French journalists.
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France will not revoke a law banning Islamic head scarves in public schools despite demands by an Iraqi group holding two French journalists hostage, the government spokesman said Monday.
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Some 100 to 120 girls have defied France's ban on Islamic head scarves in school, the education minister said Wednesday, and at least five boys from the country's tiny Sikh community have been barred from class for refusing to remove their turbans.
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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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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell talks to headscarf wearers and headscarf opponents to understand the Turkish debate on Muslim dress.
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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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PARIS The French government vowed on Monday that it would not yield to demands from militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq that Paris withdraw a ban on Islamic head scarves in public schools.
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French schools have expelled three more students for flouting the controversial ban on Islamic headscarves. The latest expulsions brought to five the total number of girls so far expelled under the new âsecularity
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The agreement to lift a ban on the wearing of head scarves by women attending universities is likely to enrage the countryâs staunchly secular old guard.
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The increasing numbers of veiled Muslim women are fueling the debate over the role of Muslims in British life.
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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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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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PARIS - Millions of French students returned to school Thursday as a new law banning Islamic head scarves from classrooms goes 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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Some 125,000 Turks, mostly women, denounced the government on Saturday over its plans to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves at universities in the mainly Muslim but secular nation.
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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.