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Nantua Islamic scarf

Publication date 05/11/1993 From €100.00

Veil of discord

Four young Muslim girls students at the Xavier Bichat high school in Nantua (Ain) were excluded by the headmaster for refusing to remove their veil in their classrooms. For Alain LAFONT, professor of geography history, "laicity is not exclusion". The theologian Louaifi BENNAOUM is firm: "we must privilege knowledge rather than go towards the mask of Zorro".

Refusal of admission to the college of Creil

Publication date 05/10/1989 From €100.00

Veil of discord

Two young girls of Muslim religion, students of the Gabriel-Havez college of Creil (Oise) are no longer admitted to classes because they refuse to leave their headscarf. They have been studying the Quran at home since the age of 3. "I will always wear the scarf until I die," says one of the girls. For Ernest CHENIERE, principal of the college, the problem is not beliefs, but the outward manifestation of this belief in class. Ali ACHABOUN, father of the two girls, denies pressuring his daughters to wear the veil.

A veiled woman determined not to withdraw her niqab

Publication date 10/04/2011 From €100.00

Veil of discord

The law prohibiting the wearing of the full veil, the niqab, in the public space will come into force tomorrow. A measure that would affect 2,000 women in France and that would be liable to a fine of 150 euros. Interview with Kenza DRIDER who wears the full veil and has decided not to apply this law. It considers that this law violates European law. She points out: "if someone comes to verbalize me or to summon me before a prosecutor, it will be a pleasure, for the good reason that it will be in this way that I will be able to make an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights".

Port du voile town hall of Paris

Publication date 14/10/2003 From €100.00

Veil of discord

The town hall of Paris tries to negotiate with an employee who refuses to take off her scarf and still shake hands with men in her duties as social worker. Interview with Anne HIDALGO, First Deputy Mayor of Paris, claiming that the young woman only veiled herself once her tenure had been secured. According to her, wearing the veil is not compatible with the public service missions undertaken by the city’s agents. Contacted by phone, Fatima SENOUCI, social worker Mairie de Paris, refutes the facts and explains that she did not have a change of behavior. Brigitte KADRI, counsel for the employee, evokes a legal blur, explaining that in the laws on laicity of 1905-1907, there is no text prohibiting the wearing of the scarf.

Wearing an Islamic headscarf in a company

Publication date 17/12/2002 From €100.00

Veil of discord

Today, the Tribunal des prud'hommes ruled in favour of an employee who was dismissed by her employer for wearing an Islamic headscarf at her workplace. She will be reinstated. The employee Dallila TAHRI, stresses that she would have agreed to dismissal for professional reasons, but not in relation to the scarf. Master THIENOT-GRUMBACH, the young woman’s lawyer, speaks of free access to work in conditions of dignity. Testimonies of two colleagues of Mrs TAHRI, satisfied of her reinstatement.

Nicolas Sarkozy/ François Hollande on sailing at school

Publication date 25/11/2003 From €100.00

Veil of discord

Excerpt from a debate on laicity between the Minister of the Interior Nicolas SARKOZY and François HOLLANDE, first secretary of the PS, on the stage of the Théâtre du Rond Point in Paris. If the second is for an ugly law the first is against, not to stigmatize, he said, Muslim young people.

A high school girl wearing a religious veil at school

Publication date 12/03/2003 From €100.00

Veil of discord

At the Lamartinière High School near Lyon, Dalal, a Muslim high school student, agreed to leave her veil on the premises of the school. She stresses that she accepts this rule and respects the law on Secularism. The teaching team chose dialogue. Annie TOBATY, principal of the high school, explains how she proceeds, step by step, to get these rules accepted by the veiled girls of her school.

Islamic fashion and veil

Publication date 31/03/2016 From €100.00

Veil of discord

An account of the controversy over the collections of Islamic veils or outfits such as the abaya, which are offered this year by chains of ready-to-wear stores or luxury brands. Ghalia MANSOUR, 24, is one of those women who wear the veil and love fashion. "We are as pretty as everyone else, we like to have a choice and not have to restrict ourselves to a few shops," she says. Testimony of a veiled woman who believes that this approach is a reflection of an open mind. For Laurence ROSSIGNOL, Minister for Families, Children and Women’s Rights, selling Islamic outfits is complicit in the imprisonment of women. Marie ALLIBERT, spokesperson of the association Osez le féminisme, fears the trivialization of the veil.

Controversy over the Cannes municipal decision against the burkini

Publication date 13/08/2016 From €100.00

Veil of discord

The mayor of Cannes has filed a municipal decree that is far from unanimous. He decided to ban the burkini on the beaches of his commune. On the beach, interview with Sarah, head covered and wearing a burkini. She finds this prohibition ridiculous. For David LISNARD, mayor of Cannes (LR): "the provocation is not the arrest, it is those who take this type of outfit". Feiza BEN MOHAMED, Federation of Southern Muslims, believes that Muslim women are being stigmatized and excluded from beaches and bathing areas.

Contrasting opinions of two Muslim women on the wearing of the veil

Publication date 23/10/1989 From €100.00

Veil of discord

The day after the demonstration of Muslims to defend the wearing of the hijab in school, reactions of Myriam MOJON, vice-president of the association "Voice of Islam" and Hala KODMANI, head of communication of the Arab League in Paris. The first emphasizes that wearing the veil is a Qur'anic precept and that everyone acts with his conscience. According to her, this controversy is not triggered by Muslims. The second emphasizes that she does not wear the veil and that she is no less Muslim. If the choice were between instruction and wearing the veil, I believe that even Islam would recommend instruction,' she stresses.

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