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French Soldier Stabbed In Neck Near Paris Adam TaylorMay 25, 2013, 1:43 PM A soldier patrolling as part of France's Vigipirate anti-terrorist surveillance plan was stabbed in the neck this afternoon, Reuters reports. A police source told the news agency that the soldier would survive the attack. He is 23 years old, according to CNN. Le Parisien is reporting that the attacker was of Northern African appearance, aged around 30 years old and wearing a jilbab, a type of Islamic garment. The man quickly fled the scene and has not been caught. The attack happened in La Défense, to the...

Although we didn't think of it in those terms at the time, I now realise that I attended a very multi-racial school. Between the ages of nine and 12, I went to a prep school in Sussex which, possibly short of numbers, recruited heavily abroad. The result was sudden influxes of differing ethnic groups. Thus the sons of members of the ruling True Whig Party in Liberia arrived in a bunch, as did several similarly highly placed Nigerians. This improved our sporting prowess. Several Persians, as everyone then called them, also came. The biggest group were the sons of a...

Teenage Muslim Girl Wins Right to Wear Islamic Dress in Britain By VOA News 02 March 2005 Britain's Court of Appeal has ruled that a teenage Muslim girl's rights were violated when her high school refused to let her wear a full Islamic dress. The court said Wednesday a clothing ban at Denbigh High School in Luton, north of London, violated Shabina Begum's right to religious freedom. The school sent Begum home in September 2002 after she showed up wearing a jilbab, a long gown that covers the entire body except for the hands and face. She has not returned...

LONDON – A 15-year-old British schoolgirl who went to court after being told she couldn't wear traditional Muslim dress in the classroom lost a legal bid Tuesday to overturn the ban. Shabina Begum was sent home from Denbigh High School in Luton, north of London, in September 2002 for wearing the jilbab, a long, flowing gown covering all her body except her hands and face. She has not attended school since. She went to the High Court, arguing she was being denied her right to education and to manifest her religious beliefs. The school argued the jilbab posed a health...