French Muslim Removes Scarf and Hair in Protest
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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.
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Two Muslim girls were expelled from high school Wednesday for refusing to remove their head scarves - the fourth such expulsion in two days - as officials began punishing those
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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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Three more Muslim girls have been expelled from schools in France for defying the new ban on headscarves. They join two girls expelled on Tuesday - one of whom told a French newspaper it had destroyed her life.
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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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Canadian Muslims may launch a human rights complaint against football's governing body after a Quebec referee ordered an 11-year-old girl to quit a tournament for refusing to remove her hijab.
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PARIS: France&#39;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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- The French parliament passed the law in March to ban &quot;conspicuous symbols&quot; of faith from its state school system. Guidelines for applying the law identified Muslim headscarves, Jewish skullcaps and large
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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.
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French authorities say at least six Muslim schoolgirls have been expelled this week for defying the country&#39;s new ban on conspicuous religious symbols in the classroom by wearing Islamic headscarves.
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PARIS - France has begun expelling Muslim girls for wearing head scarves in public schools â-hich defies a new law banning conspicuous religious symbols â - is treading carefully for fear of endangering two French hostages in Iraq.
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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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An erotic painting featuring verses from the Koran is removed from a museum after Muslims protest.
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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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RENNES, France  - Vandals scrawled swastikas and   racist slogans on the walls of two mosques in France and set   fire to one of them on Sunday, the day French Muslims started   celebrating Ramadan.
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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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French Muslims jammed Paris' main mosque Friday to pray for two journalists taken hostage in Iraq - a show of unity with the government despite Muslims' opposition to a new law banning Islamic head scarves in ...