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Austria s constitutional court struck down a law banning headscarfs in elementary schools on Friday. The law had prohibited girls from wearing ideological or religious clothing that is associated with covering the head until the end of the school year in which they turn 10. In a statement released following the decision, the court said that equality and freedom of thought, conscience and religion, establishes the state s religious and ideological neutrality. The court said the legislature was required to treat various religious convictions equally. The law did not apply to the Jewish Kippa or to the turban worn by Sikh men. The school is based, among other things, on the basic values of openness and tolerance, the constitutional court said. ....