France's education minister has vowed that a ban on Islamic headscarves in state schools will be enforced when the new term starts in September
Published:
9 July 2004 y., Friday
France's education minister has vowed that a ban on Islamic headscarves in state schools will be enforced when the new term starts in September.
Speaking on Radio France Inter, Francois Fillon said the state would be ready to expel any girl who wore a headscarf to a state school.
"I will personally ensure that there are no exceptions, the Republic will stand firm," Mr Fillon said.
He urged leaders of Muslim groups not to inflame and politicise the issue.
France's Muslim groups, who represent some of the country's estimated five million Muslims, responded angrily when the ban on headscarves and other overt religious symbols in state schools became law in March. Proponents of the ban on religious insignia in the classroom argue it equally applies to Jewish skullcaps and Christian crucifixes.
Šaltinis:
BBC News
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.
The most popular articles
The European Commission announced today the award of three of the six contracts for the procurement of Galileo’s initial operational capability.
more »
Switzerland’s leading telecoms firm has sparked a war of words by announcing its first concrete move onto the lucrative market for digital television services
more »
China has formally declared its Enhanced Video Disc (EVD) format the national standard for digital video discs
more »
SAP Labs Budapest to Employ Around 300 Highly Skilled Professionals for the Service Enablement and Continuing Innovation of the mySAP(TM) Supply Chain Management Solution
more »
LUKOIL Vice-president Leonid Fedun is negotiating the purchase of a 50-percent stake in Germany's Ruhr Oel GMBH company
more »
A large blast near the southern port city of Dailam in Iran was the result of "geophysical exploration" in the oil-rich area, a local official in the Bushehr province said
more »
Environmentalists have been celebrating the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol
more »
POLAND ISSUES US$15M LOAN TO SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION IN UZBEKISTAN
more »
Europeans are still failing to show world leadership in technology and research, a new report shows
more »
Data storage companies Toshiba and SanDisk announced a new flash memory chip designed to address the growing use of large media files
more »
Research at the heart of the country's biggest ever investment plan
more »