{"id":1445425,"date":"2022-04-19T08:31:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T12:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1445425"},"modified":"2022-04-19T08:32:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T12:32:04","slug":"french-presidential-candidate-le-pen-says-will-ban-public-headscarves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-presidential-candidate-le-pen-says-will-ban-public-headscarves\/","title":{"rendered":"French Presidential Candidate Le Pen Says Will Ban Public Headscarves"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffrench-presidential-candidate-le-pen-says-will-ban-public-headscarves%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1445425&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2022-04\/GettyImages-1391580848.jpg?h=21017897&#038;itok=cIBk-Akr\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has vowed to ban the wearing of head scarves in public, should she be elected during a second round of voting next Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Religious freedom is among the top issues for French voters in the tight race between Le Pen and incumbent Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n<p>Le Pen, an anti-immigration, French nationalist, says the head scarf is &#8220;an Islamist uniform&#8221; and a sign of commitment to an anti-Western interpretation of the Muslim faith.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The head scarf is in reality an Islamist uniform, it is not a Muslim uniform, and that makes all the difference. It is the uniform of an ideology, not of a religion,&#8221; said Le Pen during a Franc Inter radio interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This ban &#8230; is based on the battle against Islamist ideologies,&#8221; she also said, arguing it it is a response to a direct threat, rather than a commitment to France&#8217;s model of secular society, a concept called\u00a0la\u00efcit\u00e9.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Le Pen has also said she will ban the ritual slaughter of animals required to produce both halal and kosher meat.<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s chief rabbi and the president of the\u00a0Israelite Central Consistory declared that such a command would be &#8220;a serious attack on the free practice of religion that is a foundation of our Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The two Jewish leaders endorsed Macron.<\/p>\n<p>While Muslim leaders have condemned Le Pen, they have not encouraged support for Macron, whom they largely feel has let their community down over the last half-decade.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2011, it has been illegal to wear in public a face-covering Niqab or burqa that covers the entire body, but head scarves have been allowed.<\/p>\n<p>The roughly 11-year-old law was passed as an effort to combat &#8220;Islamist separatism&#8221; and has led to the closing of some mosques and Islamic associations believed to foster radicalism.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 8% of the French population is Muslim, making it the largest population in western Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The French government has struggled with its relationship with the Muslim population, due in large part to a number of jihadist terror attacks in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Though the race remains close, Macron&#8217;s has slightly expanded his lead in the past few days, with religious freedom a major voter issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has vowed to ban the wearing of head scarves in public, should she be elected during a second round of voting next Sunday.Religious<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":1445442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1445442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}