French Students Face New Head Scarf Ban
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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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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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PARIS A fragile truce between the government and Islamic organizations in France over the country&#39;s ban of Muslim head scarves in public schools appeared to hold Wednesday even though five female students have been expelled from schools for refusing to
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30 August 2004 -- Paris said today that it will not repeal a ban on the wearing of Muslim headscarves in public schools, despite the demands of hostage-takers in Iraq holding two French journalists.
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The militant demand that a French ban on Islamic head scarves be overturned has raised an unprecedented backlash among religious and political leaders in the Middle East, who have often been silent about hostage slayings and other terrorism.
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France will not revoke a law banning Islamic head scarves in public schools despite demands by an Iraqi group holding two French journalists hostage, the government spokesman said Monday.
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France has quietly begun expelling Muslim girls for wearing head scarves to public schools in defiance of a new law banning conspicuous religious symbols, treading carefully for fear of endangering two French hostages in Iraq.
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Millions of French pupils have begun the new school year under controversial legislation banning Muslim headscarves and other religious insignia from state schools.
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PARIS - French school authorities xpelled two Muslim girls and threatened to do the same to two more on Wednesday for refusing to remove their headscarves in class.
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journalists they are holding hostage to try to force Paris to revoke its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools. Baldoni, has given Paris 48 hours to rescind the ban due to apply from the start of state schools on Thursday.
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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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PARIS - France vowed Monday to press ahead with a controversial law banning Islamic head scarves in schools, despite demands by militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq that Paris revoke the legislation.    Government spokesman Jean-Francois Cope told Canal Plus television France would not compromise its values to win the release of the journalists, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot...
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Turkish lawmakers were set to lift a ban on Islamic headscarves at universities Saturday, as tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest the move as a threat to secularism.
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Three students were suspended from school in Kosovo this week for wearing Muslim headscarves, reflecting a debate that is echoing across Europe and complicating the province's quest for independence.
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Los Angeles Times - PARIS &#8212; Muslim women in head scarves, journalists in jeans and senators draped in tricolored sashes rallied here Monday in support of two French hostages held in Iraq by kidnappers demanding that France repeal a new ban on the Islamic head scarf in public schools.
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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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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