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White Wedding

Jacques Martin, mayor of the French city of Nogent-sur-Marne, has banned Muslim women from wearing headscarves during civil marriage ceremonies. French couples must be married during civil ceremonies, but they may later also have a religious wedding. "The state does not have to adapt to Islam today just as it did not adapt to Judaism and separated itself from Catholicism 200 years ago," Martin, told Le Figaro.

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