{"id":1962,"date":"2004-01-18T10:32:19","date_gmt":"2004-01-18T14:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/01\/18\/head-scarf-ban-roils-france-and-middle"},"modified":"2004-01-18T10:32:19","modified_gmt":"2004-01-18T14:32:19","slug":"head-scarf-ban-roils-france-and-middle-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/18\/head-scarf-ban-roils-france-and-middle-ease\/","title":{"rendered":"Head Scarf Ban Roils France and Middle Ease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2331'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/skarves.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"275\" align=\"left\"><i>As<br \/>\n        predicted in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/17#a2322\">this<br \/>\n        space yesterday<\/a>, the firestorm of protest over the<br \/>\n        banning of head scarves from French public schools is spreading around<br \/>\n        the world, especially in the Middle East. Also as predicted <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/17#a2322\">here<\/a>,<br \/>\n        red, white and blue French flag headscarves have started showing up,<br \/>\n        and mass drop-outs are predicted.<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n          From Baghdad and Beirut to London and Stockholm, protesters condemned<br \/>\n          the law as an attack on religious freedom. Even in the West Bank city<br \/>\n        of Nablus, women came out to support French Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it will make things worse,&#8221; Kods Mejry, 18, said. &#8220;There<br \/>\n          will be no more integration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>          Her blue, white, and red scarf matching the French flag was meant &#8220;to<br \/>\n          show that we are French and Muslim and proud of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lots of girls will leave school. Others will take their scarves<br \/>\n          off,&#8221; said<br \/>\n          Myriam Diaou, of the Union of Muslims of Trappes, southwest of Paris. &#8220;It<br \/>\n        will reinforce the sense of exclusion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2004\/01\/18\/muslims_protest_french_veil_ban\/\"> the<br \/>\n          Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As predicted in this space yesterday, the firestorm of protest over the banning of head scarves from French public schools is spreading around the world, especially in the Middle East. Also as predicted here, red, white and blue French flag &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/18\/head-scarf-ban-roils-france-and-middle-ease\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}