French laws banning the headscarf in schools and the niqab from public space have caused heated debates about French national identity and laïcité. Many non-Muslim French supported the law, and claim that the headscarf “is just not French.” What is French, then, and what does it mean to be a Muslim in secular French society?
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- Publication Date
- Sep 27, 2011
- Language
- English
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- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): April Hawkins
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