A hijab-wearing Muslim in France had to choose between faith and national belonging

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Ibtissam was stuck in the middle. She had decided to drape the headscarf around her head a year before the enactment of the Hijab Ban. Islam became central to her life after she graduated from university, and even more so as she progressed through her career and planned to start a family of her own. … But this was still France, where Muslims remain vulnerable to the plague of Islamophobia that follows their bodies wherever they live or go. It is a nation ailed by an anti-Muslim hate that fixates intensely on the bodies of Muslim girls and women and focuses its state-sponsored Islamophobia on the heads of those who don the hijab. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 703

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• ADDENDUM: Grounds the modesty-policing conversation in a lived individual case, matching the Immodesty article’s interest in the human stakes.