Turbans get French Sikhs expelled
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Three Sikh boys are expelled from school in France under a law banning religious headgear in schools.
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France's recent decision to ban the wearing of traditional Muslim headscarves in public schools - a law widely perceived in the Muslim community as an undemocratic expression of "Islamophobia" - has increased ...
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BOBIGNY, FRANCE - Three Sikh students who wore turbans to school will face a disciplinary hearing sometime in the next 15 days, a French court ruled Friday.
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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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Officials in Alsace have urged the French government to ban private neo-Nazi gatherings after a number of covertly organised skinhead celebrations were held in the region.
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Sikh officials in northern India condemn the stoning by students of an important shrine in Pakistan.
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A Muslim preacher who defended wife-beating is deported from France for a second time.
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Two French nationals have been taken hostage in Iraq by Islamic militants demanding the rescinding of a ban on the Islamic headscarf in French schools, the Arabic satellite news channel Al-Jazeera reported.
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A teacher in France is the latest to face death threats for daring to criticize the religion and its prophet's emphasis on violence
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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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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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Police in the Irish Republic will meet Sikh leaders after a trainee officer was banned from wearing the turban on duty.
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When the mayor of Rouen, in Normandy, arranged recently to return the mummified, tattooed head of a Maori warrior to New Zealand, Franceâs Ministry of Culture stepped in to block him.
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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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French authorities suspend three policemen over alleged Nazi-style salutes and racist abuse.
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A court on Friday ordered a high school to hold a disciplinary hearing to decide whether three Sikh boys excluded from classes for wearing turbans should be admitted or expelled.
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The expulsion of a priest from a church in south-west France has set off a fresh debate about celibacy.