Free Republic

<p>A dozen Bay Area Muslims gathered at the French Consulate in San Francisco at noon Tuesday to protest France's proposed ban on religiously mandated head scarves, or hijabs, and other religious symbols in public schools.</p> <p>The protesters, mostly women wearing hijabs, waited outside the consulate to show their support as a representative of the Northern California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NCA) presented a letter of opposition to Olivier Arribe, the deputy consul general.</p>