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On the morning of 2 October 1989, three teenage girls–Samira Saidani, Leila Achaboun and her sister Fatima–set off for the Gabriel-Havez secondary school in the small industrial town of Creil in northern France. The three girls were Muslims who had decided to wear headscarves to cover their hair in public at all times. They must have known that their decision would immediately bring them into conflict with the school authorities because they had been involved in disputes over this issue in the previous school year and in fact just three days earlier, a teacher had excluded Samira from a lesson, writing on her report card that this was because she refused to remove her headscarf in class.
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Mendus, S. (2011). Religion And Education. In: Coleman, E.B., White, K. (eds) Religious Tolerance, Education and the Curriculum. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-412-6_1
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