French Minister Faces Pushback on Proposed University Veil Ban

Already prohibited in schools and high schools since 2004, the Islamic veil could soon be banned at universities and for student chaperones on school outings. Defending this new project on the show hosted by David Pujadas on TF1 and LCI, Bruno Retailleau explained that "school outings are the school outside the walls. So the rules inside the walls of the school are the same outside the walls."

Lilia Bouziane, a law student who wears a veil, does not share the Interior Minister’s opinion. "We have all these problems in France, we have Mr. Minister of the Interior who comes to talk to us about mothers on school outings as a problem that disturbs public order. Especially since no French person has complained about this. It has never been shown that the veil contributes to Islamism, or that these mothers who accompany their children are doing proselytism or anything," she reacted.

The young student also questions the validity of the ban on the Islamic veil at university. "We are talking about harmless young women who want to integrate into society, who can be emancipated through studies... If the veil were banned at the university, I would not have gone there, so we would have deprived a French woman of going to university," she developed, adding that "these university students, these accompanying mothers have not disturbed anyone."

And she continued: "If today you sell the French the fact of fighting Islamism by banning these women from wearing the veil, it is worrying." "I’m not telling you that women who wear the veil are all Islamists, I’m just telling you that all Islamists, all of them, want women to wear the veil," Retailleau defended himself. "There is no big bearded man behind (the veiled women) telling them to wear the veil..." insisted Lilia Bouziane, calling to stop "infantilizing Muslims".

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