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first-hand accounts that have shaped our world. I'm Frahana Hither and today we're going back to France in 2004

when the French government banned the wearing of Islamic headscarfs and other religious clothing in state schools. The main result was that

many Muslim girls ended up being excluded from the classroom. The French

parliament is voted to ban children from wearing conspicuous religious symbols such as Muslim head scarves in school.

The measure was proposed by the governing centre-right party which argued that religion should be kept out of the classroom.

School books and the scarf. she says she considers part of her

identity the scarf almost as part of her own body she feels being forced to take it

off at school as a personal affront.

The ban was just against girls.

I mean, officially they have to say that it's against all the religion,

but the thing is those who left school was girls and Muslim girls.

In Delapay was born in Senegal and came to France as a teenager.

Her father was a diplomat in the French embassy.

She started wearing the hijab when she was at university in Paris.

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