French girls expelled over veils
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Three more Muslim girls are expelled from school in France after defying the new law banning headscarves.
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Rights groups in Tunisia say women who wear an Islamic headscarf are being persecuted by officials.
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France has quietly begun expelling Muslim girls who wear head scarves to public schools in defiance of a new law banning conspicuous religious symbols.
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A 12-year-old schoolgirl has failed in an attempted legal challenge to her school's ban on a full-face veil.
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Canadian Muslims may launch a human rights complaint against soccer'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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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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The increasing numbers of veiled Muslim women are fueling the debate over the role of Muslims in British life.
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Two French journalists in Iraq have been kidnapped by Islamic militants who say they are protesting against the French government&#39;s ban on wearing the hijab in schools.
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Two Muslim girls who refused to remove their head scarves in class have been expelled from their schools, and two more risked the same fate Wednesday as officials began taking action against those who defy a new French law banning conspicuous religious symbols from public schools.
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For some French Muslims, two worlds collided as the ban on wearing Islamic head scarves in public schools took effect.
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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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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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PARIS -- A powerful Islamic organization alleged yesterday that officials were abusing a new law banning religious symbols from schools by expelling Muslim girls who were wearing printed bandannas -- not Islamic head scarves.
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Should Roman Catholic nuns who wear veils in Italy be treated any differently to Muslim women who wear veils?
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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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BOBIGNY, France -- A court ordered a high school yesterday 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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Three Sikh boys are expelled from school in France under a law banning religious headgear in schools.