France

A 15-year-old Muslim student in France, turned away on Sept. 5 from school for wearing a kimono, has filed a complaint with the UN over being “discriminated against” due to her religious affiliation. Criticizing the recent abaya ban, the complainant…

This week The New Arab reported how the former French prime-minister Edouard Philippe—currently a mayor of the city Le Havre and presidential rival of Macron—recently expressed ideas relating to an increase of authority of the state in regulating the religious…

According to Aljazeera, teachers and students of a French high school have gone on strike in protest against the government’s decision to ban abaya and qamis in public schools. “We want to distance ourselves from the government’s Islamophobic policy,” said…

Despite the ban, sixty-seven Muslim girl students refused to remove their abaya at schools, the French education minister said on Tuesday. The new school session began on Monday, and despite the new rule, 298 students arrived at schools in various…

The general delegate of the French Council for the Islamic Faith, and head of the French Observatory Against Islamophobia, Abdullah Zakri, has blamed the French police for fueling riots in France, following the murder of the young man Nayel Marzouki…