On Thursday, right-wing and Republican parliamentarians left a meeting in the French parliament;
Rejection of the presence of a veiled student in the meeting.
Anne-Christine Lang, a member of France's ruling republican party, said in a tweet that she rejected the presence of a veiled woman, Maryam Poghetou, president of the National Union of French Students at the Sorbonne University, at a meeting of Parliament, Heart of Democracy.
As an advocate of women's rights and secular values, she added, I cannot accept someone wearing a headscarf at the meeting.
En tant que députée et féministe, attachée aux valeurs républicaine, à la #laicite et aux #droitsdesfemmes, je ne peux accepter qu'une personne vienne participer à nos travaux à l '# AN en marque de hijab, qui reste pour sioume .
J'ai donc quitté cette audition #DirectAN pic.twitter.com/6L5PRF2YvX
- Anne-Christine Lang (@AChristine_Lang) September 17, 2020
On the other hand, Sandrine Murch, a member of the ruling party and the chairperson of the session, said that the reactions during the session were unnecessary, noting that there was no rule preventing people from attending the meeting in religious clothes.
She added that the fictitious debate about the headscarf will not allow a change in the course of the meeting that discusses the future of youth.
Who is the veiled girl?
Maryam Bogito (21 years old) is a veiled Muslim girl who heads the National Union of French Students at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
The cartoon that mocked Mary in Charlie Hebdo magazine (social networking sites)
Maryam's story exploded in 2018 after appearing in an interview on the French television channel M6, where it caused many reactions. Some French did not like seeing a Muslim girl wearing a headscarf while speaking on behalf of a student union on French television.
And she was subjected to harsh criticism from a number of ministers for wearing the hijab, the most famous of which was from the "Charlie Hebdo" newspaper, known for its hostility to Muslims.
The controversy over the veiled girl was raised among the French political class, and in newspapers that made the issue a public opinion issue, and some leftists especially took advantage of this issue.
In order to revive the endless debate in France about the veil and the veil, and about Islam and Muslims in general, some of them linked the matter to extremism and to the Islamic State.