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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Any “ostentatious” symbols are banned for anyone working for the government. So public school teachers, nurses and doctors in public hospitals, Olympic athletes, etc. cannot wear hijab while working. More recently, France passed laws banning hijabs and abayas in grade schools (not universities).
So you can wear your scarf in university without any problems. Even if someone thought it was a hijab, you’d have the right to wear it. But for Muslim women working in the public sector, they are denied their right to free exercise of religion.
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