France: Anti-Islamophobia campaign against school for insulting Muslim students

The Coordination for Combating Islamophobia in France launched a campaign against a Parisian school specialized in commerce, after information that it insulted two Muslim students because of their headscarves and asked them to remove it.

The coordination said on Twitter that the DBS Educational School of Commerce had signed sponsorship contracts with major companies, since the attack on the two students in early July, calling for sending e-mails to alert partners of the school’s danger and remind them of the violations practiced by its principal, and demanded that they take a serious step to denounce what it has done against Muslim students.

The story began when the school principal met the two students and asked them to be ashamed and to walk behind people with a low head because of their hijab, because they “practice preaching Islam through their hijab,” according to her claim.

Lea, one of the two students, said during her testimony to the coordination that she wanted to document the incident because of its cruelty, adding that the principal described them in various offensive terms because of their recent wearing of the hijab, which the principal considered “a product of preaching Islam.”