An overwhelming majority of France's National Assembly voted on February 10, 2004 to ban religious emblems in state schools, a measure Paris wants to keep tensions between Muslim and Jewish minorities out of public classrooms. Deputies voted 494 to 36 to ban Muslim headscarves, Jewish skullcaps and large Christian crosses from state schools and threaten pupils who insisted on wearing them with expulsion. A Muslim girl takes part in a protest against the ban in Paris, January 31. (Charles Platiau/Reuters)
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