France’s first hijab ban attempt came in 1989, predating the national Islamophobic party’s rise

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Her life’s arc converged with the first attempt to ban headscarves in public schools, in 1989, and the emergence of the ardently Islamophobic National Rally (Rassemblement National) party in the War-on-Terror era fifteen years later. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 707