France’s National Assembly passed the 2004 Hijab Ban by 496 to 34

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Unfortunately, the French National Assembly was wholly comprised of those outsiders, and they stripped French women of the right to freely exercise their faith by a staggering 496 to 34 vote on February 10, 2004—the year after my mother made her second trip to Mecca. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 806