In the winter I don’t like to wear hats. I wrap my head with a big scarf. I don’t wear it like a typical hijab, but it is similar enough. I wonder – would I be allowed to show like this in a French university or other places where hijab is not allowed? I read that hijab is forbidden as a religious symbol. But I’m just a catholic with scarf on my head.
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Having a law and enforcing it, is 2 differents matters.
It is actually not systematically enforced and it is not fairly applied.
The law enforcement can therefore decide whenever they want to enforce it or not. (Giving them a whole new kind of power).
So if you don’t look as muslim, or a way that the law enforcement could see you as a muslim, you will never be in trouble for a scarf.
however if you look like a possible muslim, anything that will cover your hair may be an issue.
Sister veil (from catholic church) is never a problem.
France do not have the same level of individual right protection as it may exist in the USA. So those kind of laws have been more and more frequent so the police could bully specific part of the population.
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