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By: Raza Ali
BRUSSELS, Belgium: Hundreds of demonstrators on Sunday took to the
streets of Brussels protesting against a recent decision by a school
regarding banning of its girl students from wearing the Islamic
headscarf.
Chanting slogans, the protestors, that include headscarf-wearing
women, called on Belgian authorities not to approve the decision of
the French-speaking school in Laken, outside Brussels, to ban
headscarves on its premises.
The principal of the school, which majority of the pupils are Muslim,
insists that cultural divides should be left outside the school.
A Belgian Islamic group known as the party of citizens and prosperity
and the Arab-European league were the organizers of the protest rally.
Source: http://www.jafariyanews.com/2k3_news/sep/16_belgium.htm
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