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French headscarf ban faces hard test
Posted by Sam Erica on 9/02/2004, 10:01am
Paris — School doors opened for 12 million French children Thursday, but there is far more at stake this year than back-to-school jitters. An already contentious ban on Muslim headscarves and other religious signs faced its first test in France's public schools — under the cloud of Islamic radicals holding two French hostages in Iraq to press their demand that the law be scrapped.
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