French law.
BBC News ("Viewpoints: Europe and the Headscarf," 1) asked a number of prominent individuals in religious groups or the public sphere to give their views on the issue of headscarves in public school. A Muslim journalist living in the United Kingdom stated that the wearing of a headscarf or hijab should be treated as a fundamental right for Muslim women and stated that she herself wore a hijab. Others, such as a Belgian politician and a Lutheran clergywoman in London took the position that the headscarf was a potentially divisive symbol which could lead to tensions within public schools. The problem, of course, according to Alain Destexhe, the Belgian politician, was that denying school children the right to wear such clothing or symbols, France was coming very close to denying individual freedoms. The BBC position this debate in the context of the separation of church and state, which some commentators believe is essential in any multicultural society ("Viewpoints: Europe and the Headscarf," 2).
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