Le Pen vows ban on public hijab if elected
French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said on Thursday that she would ban the wearing of the hijab in public.
She said fines would be imposed on women wearing the Islamic headscarf if she wins France’s upcoming presidential elections.
Le Pen made the announcement during an interview with radio station RTL, where she said that a majority of the French population “supports a ban on the hijab in public”, and compared the introduction of a penalty on the headscarf to fining people for not putting a seat belt on.
“It’s a measure that the French people have been asking for, with 85 percent of the population wishing to no longer see the wearing of the headscarf in the streets,” she said. [Continue reading…]