Islamophobia in France
Jewish dad backs headscarf daughters
Muslim Girls Barred From Education
Muslim Women Not Allowed To Marry
Muslim Women Not Allowed To Enter Bank
Muslim Women Refused Passports
Muslim Women Denied Medical Treatment
Muslim Women Denied Employment
Muslim Women Barred From Being Jurors
Muslim Girls Barred From Sports
Hijab Fashion Show Banned
Deja Vous? Nazi Laws
Hijab in Germany
Hijab in Belgium
Hijab in Denmark
Hijab in Italy
Hijab in Spain
Hijab in Britain
http://inminds.co.uk/french-hijab-ban.html#t6
French politicians disguise their islamophobia by claiming the states secular ideals must be defended and cannot survive any religious sentiments. They say they are not discriminating against Muslims in particular but against all religions, for the protection of their secular ideals. And yet this same secular state observes all the Christian holidays but refuses to recognise Muslim or Jewish ones.We call that hypocrisy.
So great is the demand for persecution-free education among Muslims that they have been flocking to Catholic schools, which have not (as yet) drawn a distinction between a Catholic nuns habit and the Muslim hijab - permitting both on its premises. In Muslim areas Catholic schools now have up to 70% Muslim pupil populations.
Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity - apparently are not to be applied to French Muslims, and in particular Muslim women who have bore the brunt of French islamophobia
The Jewish father of two Muslim girls expelled from their school in the northern Paris suburbs for wearing headscarves has described the decision as 'scholastic apartheid' and vowed to launch an appeal.
“The upholders of radical intolerance can be very satisfied,” said Laurent Levy, a human rights lawyer who describes himself as an atheist Jew. “My daughters only want to study and they have been stopped," he said on Sunday.
France has even tried to impose its xenophobic practices in Muslim countries. The Champollion School in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, which is a subsidiary of a French NGO, expelled a 12 year old Muslim girl last October because she began to wear hijab. Then as further punishment they expelled her three brothers from the school.
a member of President Jacques Chirac's conservative UMP party, has insisted that from November 2003, that if a Muslim woman wishes to marry she must first go against her beliefs and remove her hijab, only then can she enter a civil weddings at her city hall. Couples marrying in France must be wed at a civil ceremony at their local city hall as the state does not recognise religious weddings. Interestingly only Muslims are banned from wearing a veil in city hall, Christian brides are permitted to wear their wedding veils without hindrance.
President Chirac in a televised address stated that Muslim women will now be prohibited from requesting a female doctor treat them even if one is available.
A French doctor has put up a sign, reminiscent of the "No Blacks" and "No Jews" signs of previous shameful times, which reads 'I refuse to treat veiled women' in the waiting room of his Paris-based medical clinic.
In the town of Drezzo Muslim women wearing a nikab (face hijab) are being given penalty tickets by the police - like parking tickets - every time they are seen in public wearing their nikab (Sept 2004). Mrs.Sabrina Varroni, a mother of four and a convert to Islam, has already been fined $100 (40 euros) for appearing twice in public wearing nikab - once when collecting her children from school.
Human rights my ass !