An anxious French government accelerated its diplomatic bid to save two French reporters held hostage in Iraq on Tuesday as a fresh kidnapper deadline neared for Paris to scrap a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
The kidnappers on Monday night gave France a further 24 hours to repeal its ban on headscarves in schools which is part of a broader law aimed at anti-Semitism that bars Jewish skullcaps and large Christian crosses.
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Appeasement does not seem to be working