فرنسا: تجدد الجدل حول الحجاب في الجامعات

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

تشهد "فرنسا" حاليًّا تجدُّد النقاش حول حظر الشعائر الدينية في الأماكن العامة؛ حيث يسعى السياسيون والمواطنون إلى الوصول إلى نقطة تُحقِّق التوازن بين علمانية الدولة والسماح للمواطنين بممارسة الشعائر الدينية بموجب التسامح الديني.

وقد تجدَّد الجدل في قضايا الحجاب بالجامعات بعد ورود تقارير تشير إلى أن أساتذة الجامعة يستهدفون المسلمات المحجبات بالعبارات والمواقف السلبية التي تعكس استياءَهم من حقهنَّ في ممارسة تعاليم الإسلام بحرية داخل الجامعة؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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France debates ban on Muslim veils in universities

The debate over wearing veils at public universities has resurfaced after reports of professors singling out women for wearing hijabs. Both politicians and the public are struggling to find a balance between French secularism and religious tolerance.

The issue of whether to let women wear scarves at university came into the spotlight earlier this month when a professor at the Paris XIII university said that he did not support “religious symbols in public places”, referring to a young woman wearing a hijab in his class. The professor was demoted for his comments.

In September, a professor at the Sorbonne asked a student if she would continue wearing “that thing” in class, indicating the young woman’s headscarf. The president of the Sorbonne later apologised for the professor’s comments.

The issues of religion and immigration has become even more pertinent in France after a series of attacks last month carried out by Muslim immigrants to France. In the aftermath of the attacks, which left 20 dead including the attackers, the question of what it means to be a French Muslim or both French and Jewish is on many people’s minds. In a recent speech at the Sorbonne, French President François Hollande called for a “secular teaching of religion” and said that France’s official secularism – or laïcité – “does not mean forgetting religion, or indeed being in conflict with religion”.