"Europe draws battle lines on head scarves
Unease over Islam takes form of bans on Muslim garments
Elizabeth Bryant, Chronicle Foreign Service
Sunday, October 22, 2006
(10-22) 04:00 PDT Paris -- When Nora Labrak arrived at a private employment agency last summer near the French city of Lyon, the first question she heard was not about her resume.
"I was asked to remove my head scarf at the lobby," Labrak recalled in a telephone interview. When the 29-year-old refused, she was hustled to the door. "
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