Show i BEUING (AP)-A- PARIS (AP) — French President Jacques Chirac asked parliament on Wednesday for a law banning Islamic head scarves and other religious insignia in public schools a move that kirns at shoring up the nation's secular tradition despite cries that it will stigmatize France’s 5 millionMuslims ' Chirac said he also wanted to openthe wayfor businesses to impose the y same Imui warning that “fanaticism is aining ground” : : : Chi- court on Wednesday sen- tenped two people to life in prison for organizing a three- -’ g sex party for hun-dreds tif Japanese tourists that caigsed ap uproar in China TWeive other people were sentenced tp up to 15 years in prison the government ' nefce day-lon- ' (t "i in France ‘Secularism is one of the great r Y announced The incident at a hotel in v Zhuhai city raised particular outrage in China because if ' coincided with a sensitive anniversary Sept 18 the datie Chinese mark as the start of ' Japan’s World War II invasion and occupation of their coun- ' Y ' "'V5 Chirac said he would' push for a law to be enacted in time for the school year that begins next autumn Islamic head scarves Jewish skullcaps and "would fall under the large crucifixes ' Chinese authorities have issued arrest warrants for three militancyJapanese accused of arranging the sex party and asked Japan to help in detaining them Xin-- hua said It said China asked Y’ the international police agency to circulate the war-Interpol ' r Y rant? 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' : ' - Y-- ' - ban- '"'v Y- - A schoolgirl adjusts her veil after class as she' leaves of Paris She was not wearing th6 veil in the school -- Sept' 18 ' last-growi- weaken” For many French the Islamic head scarf symbolizes Muslim militancy and fears that fundamentalists are making dangerous inroads in France Y But Muslims — for roapy of whom the scarf is a mark of modesty and a symbol pf identity — say a ban is dis- criminatory and violates their free- doms They wdm it could provoke a backlash pushing Muslims out of France's mainstream life and fueling ' try According to earlier Chinese reports as many as 400 Japan- -' ese men and 500 Chinese' prostitutes had sex at the: ' : Zhuhai International Confer- Y ence Center Hotel over a three-da- y period that ended ' ’ : ' : : crucial dementof social peace and national vY cohesion We cannot let it Y ' political spectrumhave voiced support for a law on secularism France's Muslim community — 8 percent of the country's population — is the largest in Western Europe ' France's Jewish community" about 1 percent of the population is also West-em Europe’s largest The presidential panel said the law ' ' was a way for the country to grapple " with what itdescribed last week as militancy - “The question is no longer freedom -of conscience hut public order” said ' the report by the eommis- sion issued alter six months of inter- Views with expert religious leaders teachers and school pupils The topic took on new life after ' dirzens of girls were expelled from schtx)l in the past two years for rcfus- ing to remove head scarves ' France has grappled with the scarf issue for nearly IS years It bbgan in ’v 1989 when two schtiol girls refused to remove their head-coerings The French Council of the ‘Muslim Faith set up this spring to serve as a link between France's Mus-- lim and the government expressed deep concern over the commission’s report It is headed by Dulil Bouhakeur who is also rector of the Mosque of Paris " ‘‘Theproposed terms: seem nuist discriminatory toward Islam” the " council wrote Monday in a letter io Chirac - 'successes of the Republic” Chirac said in an ’address to the nation Ult'is a - t ban Bslamic scarves in schooBs Flranc© may in bdoi Chinese get life in prison for sex party Y t The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday December 18 2003 — A7 0 : Y DR MARTENS RUGGED BOOTIE 8542 ai Available in bark peanut and black Y Whole sizes v worn Foe Y? 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