French Minister of Citizenship, Marlene Schiappa, said she could not see young girls wearing veils.
Her statement comes after a campaign launched by Paris to close a number of mosques and charities in France, to counter what it describes as "radical Islam."
In an interview with the French "LCI" channel, she posted a clip of it on Twitter, Schiappa said, "I cannot stand seeing a 5-year-old girl veiled."
A number of politicians and intellectuals in France expressed their dissatisfaction with a French bill under the name "Principles for Promoting the Values of the Republic" aimed at restricting Muslims, which Parliament has begun to debate on Monday.
As a result of protests opposing it, the name of the bill has changed from "combating separatist Islam" to "principles of promoting respect for the values of the republic," and observers believe that it marginalizes Muslims living in France.
The draft law prohibits Muslim girls under the age of 18 from wearing the veil in public places.
Several French personalities stood against the bill, including the head of the "Justice and Rights Without Borders" organization, Francois de Roch, who said that if the bill was approved, "France will forever deposit human rights principles, and it will become a dictatorship."
He added - in an interview with Al Jazeera Net - that the law "was detailed against Muslims only. In the most precise sense, this law is against Muslims as a beast and a threat to security, not as the owners of an ordinary religion, as it depicts them as a monster and a danger to society and the republic; and herein lies the danger of the draft law." .
He added that the bill "will make for every Muslim in France a form or" fiche ", as it did for Jews in Germany during World War II.