EU pro-hijab campaign pulled

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Maybe that’s why France is objecting?

I've just googled this and a hijab is traditionally a garment that covers the upper body including the face.

I have cousins in France and they are far more married up to the notion that "when in Rome, or in their case France adopt our way of life" than people are here imo. I understand France fiercely protects their secularism and that includes banning the wearing of religious symbols, but at times that comes across as rather draconian and doesn't bode for a cohesive society. Hijabs are pretty accepted here, most people don't give them a second thought, I certainly don't.

Having said that I don't like to see them on very little girls, I think there should be an element of choice about wearing them. That image was reinforced the other day when I saw the heart breaking picture of a hijab wearing little 9 year old Afghan girl who had been sold as a wife to an old man. Her face continues to haunt me.

Actually I’ve given this more thought.

I agree with the hijab. A scarf is a modest covering and the face is clearly seen.

It’s the awful burka I cannot bear to tolerate.

Jewish women in France cover their hair, so do Catholic Italian and Spanish women, and nuns are totally free to wear their habit. The hypocrisy is vast. And this when a significant proportion of French families send their kids to private Catholic schools that are State subsidised!

No I do not agree. I think the burka should be banned however.

If a woman chooses to wear a scarf or hijab, it is none of my, or your, business.

geekesse

If they won’t tolerate displays of religious affiliation, I think they should also disallow dog collars for clergy and nuns’ veils, turbans and yarmulkes. Actually, I’d prefer to allow people to wear what they choose.

i think all those conspicuous symbols of religious affiliation are banned from being worn in French state schools, and from workers in govt buildings.
someone from france will tell us the details.

I think hijabs should be fine and that women should wear what they want, as long as it is their choice.

It covers no more than a hat and a scarf does so it seems silly to allow one and not the other

I think people should be free to wear what they like bit ironic as you are not free to wear a headscarf in France but you have to wear a mask indoors

My concern is the fathers,brothers and husbands that will not allow women out without a covering.
France is creating a prison for these poor women.

If they won’t tolerate displays of religious affiliation, I think they should also disallow dog collars for clergy and nuns’ veils, turbans and yarmulkes. Actually, I’d prefer to allow people to wear what they choose.

I'm just not sure why wearing a hijab should be a problem, so long as it's worn with free will. My Jewish friends always cover their hair when they go out. Why is that any different to a hijab? And at what point do we dictate what an individual can/cannot wear?

france has strict rules on this, not displaying religious affiliation items in certain public settings, since the time of the republic.
but we do not. so in some ways it's more complicated here.