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Hijab and Quebec’s Charter of Secularism


Posted by woodturtle on 17 Sep 2012 / 0 Comments
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MMW is excited to welcome wood turtle as our newest contributor! You may know her already from previous guest posts or from her personal blog, and we look forward to having her as a regular part of the MMW team. Earlier this month, the Canadian province of Quebec elected its first female Premier. Headed by Pauline […]

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When Laïcité Goes Wrong, or When Burqa Checks Start Getting Real


Posted by nicole on 23 Aug 2012 / 0 Comments
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Since the anti-burqa law (or whatever you want to call it, I can’t anymore) was passed in France, women with “full cover” can be cited for non-compliance, and can be stopped for identity checks.  We all remember the story of the polygamous butcher and his many niqab-clad wives gleefully committing welfare fraud.  One of his wives […]

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News

Change Is Now? No, Not Yet: Manuel Valls as France’s New Interior Minister


Posted by nicole on 22 May 2012 / 0 Comments
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I was rather excited about Francois Hollande winning the French elections this month.  I hoped that five years of hateful, fear mongering policy towards Muslims by Sarkozy and his minions would come to an end and that Hollande, for all his supposed blandness, would bring some low-key normalcy to the French presidency. There was one […]

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Politics

The French “Niqab Ban,” One Year On


Posted by nicole on 18 Apr 2012 / 0 Comments
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A year ago this week, a French law came into effect banning face veils for women.  At the time, the law was subject to much derision for “only” affecting the very specific number of 367 niqab and burqa-clad women (as of 2009) in France, although at its time, the law was thought to concern a […]

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Politics as Usual: France Gets Riled Up About a Candidate’s Headscarf


Posted by nicole on 25 Feb 2010 / 0 Comments
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Headscarves are the hot talking point in French politics again. But on this occasion, we aren’t talking about girls getting kicked out of high school or women getting kicked out of mayors’ offices. No, the latest uproar comes about Ms. Ilham Moussaïd, a candidate from the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) in France’s upcoming regional elections […]

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