The Iranian women’s movement has once again revived the debate around the question of wearing the veil in France. Between those who wonder about the reasons that push Muslim women to cover their hair and those who are forced to do so, France is divided.
Even more, the wearing of religious clothes in schools has been the subject of several discussions in France. Indeed, between veil, Abaya and Qamis, the Ministry of Education in France has recorded a 22% increase in reports of attacks on secularism on French territory.
In this wake, the rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, in this case Chems-eddine Mohamed Hafiz, spoke out on the question of wearing the veil in France. And this, in particular in a statement to RTL.
The veil has “become a hysterical question in France”
Speaking at the microphone of RTL, the rector of the great mosque of Paris considers that the wearing of the veil has become a hysterical question in France. Indeed, according to the latter, when a woman is a believer, she must take into account the principles of the society in which she lives.
To explain himself, Chems-eddine Mohamed Hafiz evokes a principle, which has existed for “14 centuries in Islam”. In particular that of necessity and constraint. According to this person in charge of my Grand Mosque in Paris, when a woman cannot wear her vile, for various reasons, “she has to take it off”, he specifies. He goes on to say that removing her veil does not undermine the faith of a Muslim woman.
Also speaking about a basketball player who was banned from a competition in northern France because of her refusal to remove her veil. The rector of the great mosque of Paris gives the example of Muslim countries, where women who participate in sports competitions do not wear the veil.
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