French Sikhs lambast school ban
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French Sikhs say a deal exempting Sikh schoolchildren from a ban on overt religious attire has been flouted.
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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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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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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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Several hundred Indian Sikhs 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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President Nicolas Sarkozy has triggered a row over religion by saying faith has a place in the public sphere and schoolchildren should study the 11,000 French Jewish child victims of the Holocaust.
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"Filthy Jew!" schoolchildren howl at a classmate. "Jews only want money and power," they tell their teachers. "Death to the Jews" graffiti appear on school walls outside Paris and other French cities.
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PARIS, Aug 30  - The French government said on Monday it planned to go ahead with the introduction this week of a ban on Islamic headscarves and other religious insignia in schools, despite an ultimatum from extremists holding two French journalists
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Only about 100 French Muslim girls are breaking the new ban on headscarves at school, the education minister says.
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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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Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin on Friday denounced the heavy-handedness of French police who barged into a school in a bid to return a 4-year-old girl at the center of a trans-Atlantic custody battle to her American father.
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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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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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BOBIGNY, France, Sep 10 (IPS) - Jasvir Singh touches his turban like it was his  most precious property. âI will never take it off,â he says  sitting in the yard of the Sikh temple in Bobigny, 10 km from  Paris.
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Sikh officials in northern India condemn the stoning by students of an important shrine in Pakistan.
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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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A private Sikh school is set to open in Paris in the wake of tougher French laws on religious dress.