This time, it started with a mother wearing a hijab on a school trip. Since 2011, it has been illegal to wear a face-covering veil in public in France. Many French people also agree with laws that bar state employees and schoolchildren from wearing “ostentatious” religious symbols. Last year, Macron said that although he respected a woman’s decision to wear the veil, he was “not personally happy” about it. Zuber, the historian, said tensions over the Muslim veil were rooted in a long-standing cultural aversion to public expressions of faith.

Source: bd News24 October 20, 2019 09:00 UTC