French Researcher: Headscarf Ban Solved Nothing

French researcher Francoise Lorcerie has said that the ban on wearing religious symbols in French public schools yielded no solutions for any problems.

The ban may increase the “feeling of humiliation” among Muslim girls Lorcerie stressed and the Muslim girls yielded to the ban as they have no other choice but to go to a public school.

The French researcher, conducting studies on headscarf at the famous French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS), made some assessments about the headscarf ban to the French Liberation daily.

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