On Sunday, August 27, 2023, the French Minister of National Education and Youth, Gabriel Attal, announced on the French television channel TF1 that female students would no longer be allowed to wear the abaya, a garment that some Muslim women and girls wear that covers the whole body except the face, feet, and hands, in schools.
On August 18, 2023, the Turkey-based International Organization to Support the Prophet of Islam organized[1] a seminar sponsored by the Qatar-based and funded International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS). The event featured notable figures including the Grand Mufti of Libya, Sheikh Sadiq Al-Ghariani, IUMS Secretary General 'Ali Al-Qaradaghi, Sudanese Islamist cleric Abd