Much like the “burkini” swimsuit in 2016, the runner’s hijab has set off a bitter national debate. As a woman, that’s how I live,” Health Minister Agnès Buzyn said Tuesday morning on French radio. Our goal is simple: to offer them an adapted sport product, without judgment.”But Decathlon ultimately succumbed to pressure and announced that the runner’s hijab will not be sold in France. Crazy, crazy, crazy and crazy,” went Williams’s narration. In 2004, France banned the hijab in public schools, and in 2010, it became the first European nation to ban the burqa, which covers a woman’s face.

Source: Washington Post February 26, 2019 16:27 UTC