French muslim girls lose veil case in European court

Irish Times
December 4, 2008

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1142/french-muslim-girls-lose-veil-case-in-european

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Europe's human rights court today threw out a complaint by two French Muslim girls who were expelled from their school for refusing to remove their headscarves during sports lessons.

France, which takes secularism in state schools very seriously, passed a law in 2004 banning pupils from wearing conspicuous signs of their religion at school after a decade of bitter debate about Muslim girls wearing headscarves in class.

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