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

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

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

Emmanuel Macron's political party has proposed banning girls under the age of 15 from wearing the Muslim headscarf in all ...

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

The sports hijab bans in France are yet another measure underpinned by Islamophobia ... By placing the wearing of a headscarf on the spectrum of “attacks on secularism”, which range from ...

He says the principles of French secularism cannot be used to justify the headscarf ban because it’s not the role of a secular state to judge a religious symbol. A heated debate sparking ...

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 ...

But now the Muslim convert fears she will no longer be able to compete as the French government is pushing for a new law to ban the headscarf in domestic sports competitions. "It feels like they ...

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 ...

Salimata Sylla, a French basketball player who wears a headscarf, expressed her dismay after France barred its athletes from wearing headscarves at the 2024 Paris Olympics, saying it is both ...

On the outskirts of Paris, 44-year-old French Muslim weightlifter Sylvie Eberena concentrates hard and pushes 80 kilograms of bar and weights clean over her veiled head. The single mother made her ...