A basketball player was sidelined for her headscarf. France may now ban them in all sports - Thousands of young Muslim women ...

Thousands of young Muslim women in France are sidelined from competitive sport because of rules in several disciplines ...

Salimata Sylla was about to lead her team onto the basketball court, as she had done many times before. On that Sunday ...

Supporters say it is necessary to protect secularism, while opponents have denounced it as discriminatory, Islamophobic, and ...

says the principles of French secularism cannot be used to justify the headscarf ban. “The state, because it is secular, has no business judging a religious symbol,” he said. “That is not ...

France stands alone with religious headwear ban Amnesty International said the new bill targets Muslim women and girls by excluding them from sporting competitions if they wear a headscarf or ...

A group of headscarf-wearing soccer players called “Les Hijabeuses,” who campaign against the ban, say the new bill would unfairly force Muslim women to choose between wearing a headscarf or playing a ...

Gabriel Attal, who now heads the French president’s centrist political party, floated banning headscarves for women younger ...

French President Emmanuel Macron's political party has announced that it wants to ban minors under 15 from wearing the Muslim headscarf in public. It comes as his government held a security ...

Gabriel Attal, the head of President Macron's party, said he wanted to ban under-15s from wearing Muslim headscarves in ...

In 2022, Marine Le Pen proposed banning the Muslim headscarf in all public places during her unsuccessful presidential campaign. There is also ongoing discussion within the French government about ...