In Strasbourg, the store of the Italian shoe brand, Geox, finds itself at the center of a controversy after its manager refused the services of a temporary worker, a veiled woman. The latter is targeted by a complaint for having posted a video showing the scene on TikTok. An investigation has also been opened.
In France, schoolgirls, athletes and feminists are resisting the ban on wearing the veil in schools and the hijab in sports in a country where secularism, it seems, excludes Muslim women.
France’s decision to ban its athletes from wearing the Islamic veil during the Olympics to be held from July 26 to August 11, 2024 in Paris continues to provoke reactions. A Moroccan thinker and intellectual calls on Muslim communities around the world to file a complaint with the competent courts.
Faced with the controversy surrounding the French decision, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) authorizes the wearing of the Islamic veil inside the athletes’ village during the Paris Olympics, which will be held from July 26 to August 11, 2024 in Paris.
The UN has reacted to the ban on French athletes wearing the Islamic headscarf at the Olympic Games to be held from July 26 to August 11, 2024 in Paris, in the name of secularism.
In France, a new controversy has erupted after Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, the Minister of Sports, announced the ban on wearing the veil for the French delegation participating in the Olympic Games to be held from July 26 to August 11, 2024 in Paris.
In Rabat, veiled students wearing an abaya or long clothes were denied access to classes in a French school, under the decision of the French Minister of National Education, Gabriel Attal, which is causing a lot of controversy.
The London-born Pakistani and Moroccan Mariah Idrissi , the first hijab-wearing model to participate in an advertising campaign, says she is convinced that despite some pressure, modest fashion will continue to develop.
Moroccan preacher Ahmed Raissouni has defended Moroccan defender Nouhaila Benzina , the first player to wear the veil during a women’s World Cup. She is the target of extremists.
The appearance of Moroccan defender Nouhaila Benzina , the first player to wear the hijab at a women’s World Cup, is a revolution hailed in the United Kingdom. This leads a British coach to compare her country to France, where the wearing of the veil in sport remains prohibited.
Voices have been raised from the Belgian Reformist Movement (MR) to denounce the appointment of Saliha Raiss, a young veiled woman, to replace the Molenbeek alderman Jef Van Damme (Vooruit).
A veiled student was the victim of racist remarks from an examiner during an end-of-year defense at the University of Paris-Dauphine.