Headscarves - France

May 2004
By banning the headscarf from schools, France hopes to protect its fiercely won secular identity. But will this move backfire, further radicalising an already marginalised community?

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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[GoodMusic6695]

Education and Religion should be completley seperate. In France a Jew can't wear a skullcap to school and a Christian can't wear a cross to school so i don't see why a muslim should be able to wear a headscarf. This show is portraying the parents and teachers as racist, and although some of them may be, most of them probaly wont be but just belive in secularism. I'm not racist in anyway at all, and I belive that a muslim should have the right to wear a headscarf, veil or bhurka in public.

[road2gold]

So Catholic nuns can't wear a habit?? Technically, a hijab is more revealing than a habit...

[Anonymoussomeonenr1]

When it comes to the regulation against veils and crosses in France it is not a law that encourages freedom of thought or a law against religious symbols. It is a law that in itself neglect freedom of interpretation of symbols-freedom of thought! To get into society women must submit to a western cultural view of modesty. And muslims do show their hair to other women, so it is a law for them to submit and show it to france men really. No more freedom than to submit to muslim men and covering it.

[Anonymoussomeonenr1]

And muslim women who think it must symbolise submission.. Alredy thousands of years before Islam women wore it as a symbol of their freedom. Ironic now. And no western political woman can tell me veiling can not be compatible with freedom of thought. For I belong to no religiousgroup, brought up and live in the society of sexualization -and I choose to wear the veil (and modest clothes). And I´ve never known anyone who encouriaged me! I have my own thoughts.

[Anonymoussomeonenr1]

And muslim women who think it was invented by evil muslim men and must symbolise submission.. Alredy thousands of years before Islam women wore it as a symbol of their freedom. Ironic. And no western political woman can tell me veiling can not be compatible with freedom of thought. For I belong to no religiousgroup, brought up and live in the society of sexualization -and I choose to wear the veil (and modest clothes). And I´ve never known anyone who encouriaged me! I have my own thoughts.

[Anonymoussomeonenr1]

It is not a religious symbol, it is a religious requirement. There is a difference! Muslims wear veils because they have a clothing-style where they only show their face and hands when they have hit puberty. To tell a veiled muslim woman to take off her veil is like telling a Westernized woman to take off her bra.. Meaning she would feel immodest. That is just cruel!

[NovelistVampireGirl]

This is just wrong, I'm a christian and I cover, though my veil is a bit different, and I wear a cross also. So glad I don't live in France. The degree to which a woman takes her own modesty is in my opinion a measure of her espect for herself and for God. More importantly it's a matter of personal concience and that some people, even some governments, refuse to accept us (those of us who veil) is disgusting

[cocochanel464]

Fuck la france ... Gourvernement de merde qui ne sait pas trouver ou sont les vrai probleme ds leur société ...encore une fous FUCK la france ...raciste a la con

[MIDNAq1LINK]

It's disturbing to think humans accept a more sexually revealing person than a person who is more self respecting and covered up. I wish we could seriously ditch our instinct to judge people by their appearance and sexual attractiveness and accept a person based on who they are as a person, not physically. But the fact that laws in western countries are going AGAINST that is scary. In my country (Canada) they recently made it illegal to wear Niqab at citizenship ceremony. It makes me furious.

[vibarva]

@muon007 happy hollydays...

[koolboi1100]

what i don't understand is that no one questions a girl wearing a bikini in public but everyone has to question a girl completely covering herself when the girl in the bikini is probably more pressurized by society to dress that way than the girl in the hijab is by her family i think these things are a personal choice and should be respected

[vitovito123]

@sophizzy bye nice talking to you, may Allah bless you!