France banned hijab-wearing mothers from school trips in 2019

Evidence

In May 2019, the French senate passed legislation banning mothers who wear the hijab, like Ibtissam, from accompanying their children during school events and trips. “The ban, proposed by the centre-right Republicans party, builds on an existing prohibition on the wearing of the garments in both primary and secondary schools.” The new ban brands Muslim mothers as outcasts and undesirables in the minds of their sons and daughters, like Farah, who are trapped between the deeply politicized French classroom and their Islamic households. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 720

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Category: Factual Claims

• QUESTION: Worth checking whether Belgium, Quebec, or Denmark subsequently adopted similar mother-on-school-trip bans, as the earlier copycat chain suggests they might.

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• French hijab bans rest on narratives contradicting Muslim women’s own accounts (similarity 0.85)
• France’s first hijab ban attempt came in 1989, predating the national Islamophobic party’s rise (similarity 0.84)
• Quebec’s Bill 21 imported the French hijab ban into Canada in 2019 (similarity 0.83)
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• France’s 2004 Hijab Ban is the most recognizable form of structural Islamophobia (similarity 0.82)
• France’s Hijab Ban inaugurated gendered Islamophobia that polices Muslim women’s bodies (similarity 0.80)
• France’s hijab laws seeded copycat bans in Quebec, Belgium, and other European nations. (similarity 0.80)
• The hijab ban targets even deeply culturally assimilated Muslims (similarity 0.79)
• France’s 2004 hijab ban spawned copycat laws in Belgium, Quebec, and Denmark (similarity 0.79)
• Canadian Muslim women’s research linked secular hijab bans to revolutionary progress (similarity 0.79)
• A hijab-wearing Muslim in France had to choose between faith and national belonging (similarity 0.79)
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• Muslim women’s bodies are the first targets of state Islamophobia (similarity 0.78)