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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Religious symbols are banned if you are representing the country, so if you work in a townhall, a hospital, school, stuff like that you’ll be asked to not wear your hijab/cross (if visible)/catholic veil/else while you’re working and publicly representing [France]. It does not concern students (from memory, although it’s been a while since I was in university and might misremember) private workers, citizens walking in the street, etc.
People may use the law to be assholes to women wearing the hijab though, it is true, but it’s not supposed to be the spirit of it. (I remember the first week/month it came, I was in the equivalent of high school (like 12-15 years old) and a monitor told me off because I had a bandana in my hair. Reader, I’m the palest of white, this was a rolled bandana that only covered my forehead, there was no way to mistake this for a hijab, they just wanted to use it as an excuse to be a petty tyrant)
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