France is seen by many Americans as a reluctant ally, at best, in President Bush’s war on terror. But a new hostage crisis has made clear that the Gallic nation, with western Europe’s largest Muslim population, is not immune to threats from radical Islam. As French diplomats scrambled to save two journalists held hostage in Iraq, the government defied captors’ demands to scrap a new law banning Muslim head scarves in public schools. “The law will be applied” when school doors open on Thursday, government spokesman Jean-Francois Cope said. Full Story
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