Schoolgirls expelled over headscarf
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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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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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A minister orders an inquiry into an Islamic school which is accused of promoting religious intolerance.
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A Muslim school is removing from textbooks passages which allegedly brand other faiths as "worthless".
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PARIS -- It was easier for 16-year-old Nadia Arabi to remove her Islamic head scarf yesterday than to defy a new law banning religious signs in the classroom, or to risk contempt for breaking a national chain of solidarity for two Frenchmen held hostage by militants in Iraq.
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PARIS - Millions of French students returned to school Thursday as a new law that bans Islamic head scarves from classrooms went 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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Two Muslim girls in France who refused to remove their head scarves in class have been expelled from their schools today as officials began enforcing the country&#39;s ban on religious symbols.
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Some 100 to 120 girls have defied a new law banning Islamic head scarves in classrooms and are in talks with school officials trying to convince them to remove the head coverings, Education Minister Francois Fillon said Wednesday.
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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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A move to lift a ban on young women students wearing headscarves at universities has renewed the battle between secularists and the government
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Franceâs new law banning Islamic headscarves in schools - a bold effort to rein in Muslim fundamentalism â-pparently passed its first test today, the start of the school year.
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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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EINDHOVEN, Netherlands  - The Muslim woman adjusted her head scarf and gazed wearily at her daughters' elementary school Friday, one of many Islamic sites attacked since a Muslim radical allegedly murdered a Dutch filmmaker who criticized Islam.
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More than 40 pupils are suspended after ganging up on a lone girl in a row over a boy.
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The kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq has injected new tension into France&#39;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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Vulnerable youngsters expelled from schools in England are being doubly disadvantaged, say inspectors.