Why do so many French people - left, right, conservative, liberal - have a visceral aversion to the Muslim headscarf or hijab? A law to ban 'religious symbols' such as the Muslim headscarf on school trips is to come before the French parliament. Photo: AFPThe latest threat to the secular, undivided French way of life comes from Muslim mothers who go on state school trips wearing head-scarves. The education minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, told a TV interviewer last Sunday that he approved of the proposed scarf ban on school trips. “The head-scarf is not desirable in our society.”In other words, if the education minister had his way, France would ban the religious head-scarf altogether.

Source: The Local October 16, 2019 07:18 UTC