Sacre bleu!

It's a good thing that the French didn't join the Coalition of the Willing a couple of years ago. To do so would have risked pissing off their citizens.

A French court has upheld a school's decision to expel three Sikh boys for wearing turbans to school.

The tribunal said the boys' continued wearing of an under-turban made them "immediately recognisable as Sikhs".

Under a law passed amid protests in March 2004, French students are barred from wearing conspicuous religious symbols at school.

The boys' lawyers said they would appeal and if necessary take their case to the European Court of Human Rights.

The boys, aged 15 to 18, were expelled from the Louise-Michel school in Bobigny, north-east of Paris, last November.

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