(French Education Minister Vincent Peillon speaks during a news conference in Paris December 3, 2013...

1. France to keep a headscarf ban despite negative legal advice
(French
Education Minister Vincent Peillon speaks during a news conference in Paris December 3, 2013.
REUTERS/Charles Platiau )
France decided on Monday to maintain a ban on Muslim headscarves for volunteer school Texas
lawyers monitors despite a warning that it overstepped the law requiring religious neutrality in the
public service.
The Council of State, which advises the government on disputed administrative issues, said in a 32-
page analysis that this neutrality did not apply to mothers who help escort schoolchildren on outings
such as museum visits.
Education Minister Vincent Peillon promptly announced the ban would continue because the
Council's opinion also said that schools could impose internal rules against religious wear.
"The memo (establishing the ban) remains valid," he said in a communique after the Council's
analysis was released.
France imposed the ban last year as one of several steps in recent years to tighten its policy of strict
secularism. It banned headscarves for pupils in state schools 10 http://law.und.edu/ years ago and
outlawed full-face Muslim veils in public in 2011.
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