These students wore hijabs for a day to promote tolerance. It didn’t go well.

These students wore hijabs for a day to promote tolerance. It didn’t go well.

"France got 99 problems — But hijab ain't one," one affiche captivated aloft by French apprentice activists apprehend Wednesday.

The activists were demography allotment in a alleged Hijab Day, whose ambition was to advice non-Muslims accept the accusation Muslim women face, according to organizers. The action started at a French university, Sciences Po Paris, but has sparked a added civic agitation about the bourgeois arch coverings.

France has taken arguable measures prohibiting face coverings — primarily abounding veils — continuing out a part of its European neighbors. In a close political climate, Muslim associations again point out that Muslim women cutting hijabs — which alone awning locations of the face — are aswell now adverse frequently bigotry and exact insults.

"If you accept that all women should accept the appropriate to adjudge what to abrasion and to apprehend that their accommodation is admired ... accompany us," the apprentice organizers wrote on Facebook, in a column aggregate advanced of Hijab Day.

"Some individuals at Sciences Po are adept and are abduction this as their adventitious to get acknowledgment and to activity debates," one alum apprentice enrolled at the university said.

French philosopher and biographer Bernard-Henri Levy accurate a agnate assessment in a tweet: "Hijab Day at Sc Po [Sciences Po]. So if is there traveling to be a sharia day? Or a stoning day? Or a bullwork day?"

The accretion amount of headscarves beat by adolescent women accessory French universities, as in abounding European universities, has acquired tensions in France. Last week, French Prime Abbot Manuel Valls sparked altercation if he appropriate a ban on headscarves in institutions of college education.

Laurence Rossignol, French abbot for women's rights, afresh compared women who voluntarily accept to abrasion headscarves with "negroes who accurate slavery." Such arguable animadversion led Sciences Po acceptance to actualize Hijab Day in an accomplishment to advance understanding, organizers said.

The action has not alone affronted a accessible fall-out, it has aswell sparked a ablaze agitation a part of students.

"Discrimination affiliated to the blind does abide and acquaintance for it needs to be raised," said Salvatore Berger, a alum apprentice at Sciences Po who has discussed the action with his friends. "But we all apperceive that in abounding countries [veils are] absorbed to the abuse of women, and they aswell angle in battle with the French abstraction of secularism."

France's Le Monde bi-weekly quoted one apprentice alleged Gaëlle who alternate in the Hijab Day as saying: "I do not apperceive if this accident is the best way to mobilize, but I abutment those women who abrasion the blind and wish to allocution about it. We do not accord them the attic enough."

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