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  2. Islamic scarf controversy in France - Wikipedia

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    Thus, many French-Muslims claimed that the law banning the veil in public schools was aimed at "forcefully integrating" the Muslim population by restricting their identity. [20] There also exists a notable minority of French non-Muslims who have expressed support for the right to wear the veil in public schools. [21]

  3. French ban on face covering - Wikipedia

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    The French ban on face covering [a] is the result of an act of parliament passed in 2010 banning the wearing of face-covering headgear, including masks, helmets, balaclavas, niqābs and other veils covering the face, and full body costumes and zentais (skin-tight garments covering entire body) in public places, except under specified circumstances.

  4. French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in ...

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    The law does not mention any particular religious symbol, and thus bans Christian (veil, signs), Muslim (veil, signs), Sikh (turban, signs), Jewish (yarmulke, signs) and other religious signs. [1] It is, however, considered by many to target the wearing of headscarves (a khimar , considered by many Muslims to be an obligatory article of faith ...

  5. European Court of Human Rights upholds French law banning veil

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    (Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday upheld France's 2010 ban on full-face veils in public, dismissing a case brought by a French woman against the state for breach of ...

  6. French schools turn away girls wearing abayas as Muslim ...

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    Public schools in France have been turning away students for breaking a new national ban on the abaya, a long, robe-like garment often worn by Muslim women, as a rights group filed an appeal ...

  7. Hijab and burka controversies in Europe - Wikipedia

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    In France and Turkey, the emphasis is on the secular nature of the state, and the symbolic nature of the Islamic dress, and bans apply at state institutions (courts, civil service) and in state-funded education (in France, while the law forbidding the veil applies to students attending publicly funded primary schools and high schools, it does not refer to universities; applicable legislation ...

  8. In wake of attacks, one French Muslim asks: does my country ...

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    Raised by her grandparents - one Muslim, the other Catholic - the 36-year-old identifies as French, and defends France's secular values that separate religion from the state in public life.

  9. Islamic veiling practices by country - Wikipedia

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    The feminist pioneer Anbara Salam Khalidi removed her veil in public in 1927, and has been called the first Muslim woman in Lebanon to publicly abandon the veil. [ 207 ] [ 208 ] An important event in the growing trend of unveiling among upper-class women in Lebanon and Syria in the 1920s was the publication of al-Sufur wa-l-hijab by Nazira ...