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A new ban on foreign-appointed imams in France is aimed at combating Islamist separatism, but the policy risks making matters worse by handing future decisions about hiring imams over to local groups affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. The French
France's highest administrative court, the Council of State (Conseil d'État), has rejected two legal challenges aimed at overturning a ban on abayas — full-length robes worn by some Muslim women and girls — in public schools. The court's upholding of
The controversial move by French sports minister to ban the hijab stirs online protests as restrictions on Muslim attire tighten.
France's ban on the abaya is the latest example of state Islamophobia and a grave violation of laicite, as well as a cynical electoral strategy to seduce the far right and split the left
As authorities prepare for Bastille Day protests, the city's most marginalised despair of their options