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31 August, 2004
31 August 2004Two French journalists being held by the Islamic Army of Iraq were shown on Al Jazeera, pleading for the French government to retract its ban on head scarves, The New York Times reports. The French government argues that the law preserves the country's secular identity, and French Muslim leaders have voiced their disgust with the "madness" of the kidnappers imposing their will on an internal French issue. Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi further politicized the matter by calling the kidnapping proof that France's opposition to the war offered no protection from terrorism. "'Neutrality doesn't exist...The French are deluding themselves if they think they can remain outside of this. Today the extremists are targeting them, too.'''
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