Alwaght- Europe’s top human rights court is upholding France’s headscarf ban in the case of a Muslim social worker who lost her hospital job because she would not remove her scarf.
The decision comes at a time when there is an unprecedented increase in incidents of Islamophobia in France.
The case decided Thursday dates to 2000, when Christiane Ebrahimian was working in the psychiatric department at a public hospital in Nanterre. She learned that her contract would not be renewed because patients had complained about her refusal to remove her headscarf. France’s secular government bars public employees from displaying religious beliefs on the job – a ban that has since been extended to schoolchildren and even parents who want to accompany a class outing.
The headscarf ban, which formally became a law banning “conspicuous” religious symbols in 2004, opened a rift with France’s Muslim community, the largest in Europe.
France has been witnessing instances of Islamophobia following two major terrorist attacks in the country this year with the latest one being on Nov. 13 in Paris during which almost 130 people died. The ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Last Wednesday, a woman wearing a veil in the French city of Marseille was attacked by a man who called her a terrorist and blamed her wearing the hijab. He reportedly punched her in the neck and slit her chest with a box cutter, and then reportedly fled the scene. In March, another woman, who was in her final month of pregnancy and was wearing a veil, was assaulted violently in the southern French city of Toulouse.
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