A Jewish father says he may sue after a school sent his daughters home for refusing to remove their Muslim head scarves. Laurent Levy, who works as a lawyer for the anti-racist organization MRAP, said his daughters had begun “a spiritual search that I absolutely do not share;” nevertheless, he said he may sue France’s Ministry of Education for discrimination.
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