Iran women rally against French headscarf ban in schools
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Around 150 Iranian women demonstrated in front of the French embassy in Tehran Saturday protesting the ban on the Islamic headscarf in French state schools.
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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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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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French government officials called for the release of two journalists kidnapped in Iraq by a group demanding that France rescind a ban on Islamic headscarves in the nation&#39;s schools, Agence
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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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ANKARA, Feb 11 (IPS) - Thanks to an alliance between the ruling Justice  and Development (AK) and Nationalist Action (MH) parties, the  Turkish Grand National Assembly has approved legislation to lift  the ban on wearing the Muslim headscarf for female students at  universities.
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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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TEHRAN -- Activists should not try to change Islamic laws relating to women's rights, Iran's supreme leader said yesterday, two days after one campaigner was reportedly sentenced to 34 months in jail and 10 lashes.
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Turkeyâs parliament voted to lift a ban on female students wearing the Muslim headscarf at university.
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PARIS -- French critics and defenders of a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools united in support of the law yesterday, pledging to stand firm against militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq who want the law revoked.
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Rights groups in Tunisia say women who wear an Islamic headscarf are being persecuted by officials.
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Thousands rallied Saturday outside Paris to decry a recent European Union decision to keep an Iranian opposition group on a terror blacklist, while a group leader insisted Iran is "on the verge of exploding."
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France will not revoke a law banning Muslim head scarves in public schools despite demands by a militant Islamic group holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq, the government spokesman said Monday.
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STRASBOURG, France  - A Muslim schoolgirl bowed to  France's ban on Islamic headscarves in state schools on Friday  by returning to class and removing her veil to reveal a head  shaved bald in protest.
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Thousands rally in Ankara to protest against a plan to allow women to wear the Islamic headscarf in universities.
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The French government has indicated that it intends to stand firm on its decision to ban the wearing of headscarves by Muslim girls in state schools.
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Thousands of Iranians rallied near the site of a European Union summit Thursday to demand that the nations comply with a court ruling and remove an exiled Iranian resistance movement from its list of terrorist organizations.