A Muslim woman's experience with France's hostility to the hijab
The French government has passed a new law that could severely limit the right of women to wear scarfs and hijab in public, fearing that it could further smash Islamophobia, according to the British media The Guardian.
The report said the new law would seriously affect the construction of mosques and would give local government authorities more discretion to close local organizations that are considered against “Republican policy”, which is particularly effective against Muslims, but the most controversial issues are being used against Muslims. One of them is the increase in ban on women wearing scarves in government sectors.
"We see the justification of freedom and violation of fundamental rights in the name of security, where secularism is just a weapon," said French lawyer Rim-Sara Alaun. It is a perverted law whose aim is not only to contain the Muslims, but to remove them from the public sector.
A French Muslim woman named Naura talks about the experience of institutional Islamophobia and fear of the future, a researcher at the university and a mother of three children, living in a middle-class neighborhood in Paris.
Nowra said, I was a regular volunteer at my son's school in 2019 when he was eight years old. The teachers were also agreeing to this, but the next morning when I arrived at the school, I saw the headmaster talking to other teachers about me, a teacher came and asked me to leave. Just an excuse to not have a place on the bus is just to challenge him, why I am being asked to leave as a guardian.
The headmaster came and said: ‘You have to understand, we are a republic here, here is the principle of secularism, and if If you don't like it, go home.’ I thanked him for the information, I said, "I am an academic researcher in a top university in France.
The Muslim woman added that this has made me very humiliated, I started crying in front of everyone; my son has witnessed the whole scene, I told them that they did not know about institutional racism and the law, they themselves were confused.
After that day my son didn't want to go to school anymore.I couldn't reassure him. I decided to make a formal complaint to several human rights groups. But they do protect me and the educational guy. denies. The headmaster apologizes He denied that I decided not to sue. Because, it was a cause of emotion for me and my son.
‘I am extremely disappointed with the future of this country. I don't see the future here anymore. We are unwanted, unreasonable and we have serious emotional scars of symbolic violence. We often hear that there is a problem of integration in France, but what is the problem of racism.’