No image available
/ 10 February 2004

Europe and the veil

Spilling out of their school in Saint-Ouen, north of Paris, they are so keen to get a word in that, on a bitter afternoon, they are queuing up on the pavement to march. Most are against the law banning Muslim headscarves from schools. A few are in favour, and happy to say so. France is not the only Western state to face the demands of an increasingly radical Islam.