The issue has been in the news in recent weeks since a far-right politician objected to a mother wearing a headscarf who was accompanying a school trip to a regional assembly meeting. The move came a day after two elderly men were seriously injured in a shooting attack at a mosque in the southern city of Bayonne. A suspect with a far-right background is in jug.
The bill also needs to be approved by the National Assembly, to enter into effect.
But as the ruling party, the Republic on the Move ‐ which has a majority in the national assembly ‐ is against the bill, it is unlikely that the bill will be approved.
La Belle France has the largest Moslem minority in Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum..., estimated at 5 million or more out of a population of 67 million. The place of religion and religious symbols worn in public can be a matter of controversy in the staunchly secular country. For years, rights groups have argued that La Belle France's secular laws foster Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
and discriminate against Moslem women. La Belle France banned schoolchildren from wearing religiously distinctive clothing or emblems in 2004, after controversy over Moslem schoolgirls wearing headscarves.