Pennsylvania High School Rescinds Ban on Muslim Scarves

by Diane Macedo
Fox News
February 18, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1344/pennsylvania-high-school-rescinds-ban-on

Excerpt:

A Pennsylvania high school is permitting Muslim students to wear scarves known as kaffiyehs in school just a day after ordering two students to remove them for class.

Gateway High School officials met with parents Wednesday after seniors Mohammad Al-Abbasi, 18, and Ahmad Al-Sadr, 17, left school Tuesday after refusing to take off the checkered scarves, believed by some to be a symbol of terrorism.

District spokeswoman Cara Zanella told FOXNews.com the ban was an attempt to diffuse tension between Jewish and Muslim students, after three students wore shirts to school saying "RIP Israel."

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