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Article: In France, head scarf ban proceeds peacefully.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- September 8, 2004
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Byline: Tom Hundley
PARIS _ Perhaps it is because the debate has become tangled with the fate of two French hostages in Iraq, but the clash between the French government and head scarf-wearing Muslim schoolgirls has been far milder than expected.
"There will be no strikes, no sit-ins. Everything will be done through the legal process. We will be above reproach," said Lhaj Thami Breze, president of the Union of Islamic Organizations in France, a group that has been sharply critical of the government's new ban on wearing head scarves and other "conspicuous" symbols of religious affiliation in public schools.
Breze spoke while 12 million students ...