

France Bans Muslim Abaya in Schools
“When you walk into a classroom, you shouldn’t be able to identify the pupils’ religion just by looking at them,” Education Minister Gabriel Attal said.
“When you walk into a classroom, you shouldn’t be able to identify the pupils’ religion just by looking at them,” Education Minister Gabriel Attal said.
“May you be exposed to a terrorist attack,” users commented, even though the comedian was clearly mocking Swedes. The Taliban were not laughing as they halted Sweden’s humanitarian works because of the Quran controversy.
Following the stunt, Sweden’s embassy in Iraq was stormed by a mob of protesters; governments of Jordan, Morocco, Kuwait, and the UAE recalled their ambassadors from Stockholm; and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (ICO) called for Quran burning to be banned globally.
The Fratelli d’Italia party is capitalising on the Italian state’s failure to recognise Islam as an official religion to radically clamp down on what structures Muslims can turn into prayer space.
In spite of the video evidence available to them, mainstream Belgian media kept mum about the profile of the assailants and the revealing chant (“Allahu akbar”) they uttered.
Many men in the Orthodox community now wear ball caps on top of their kippahs so as not to be recognized in public.
The two memos, although they come from state services, flagrantly contradict the official discourse of the education minister, the indigenist Pap Ndiaye, who does everything to minimise the problem of the Islamisation of schools.
In France, Jews and Arabs have been drifting apart over the past 50 years. A Paris exhibition commissioned by one of the country’s leading historians hoped to build bridges.
I have never experienced such amateurism,” Belgium’s Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne said. “And this for a body that plays a crucial role for the Muslim community in our country. It deserves better.”
In the opinion of the commission members, who have both personal and professional experience working directly with minority communities, the reality is that most girls wear the hijab due to familial pressure.