{"id":1577003,"date":"2022-07-28T16:10:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1577003"},"modified":"2022-07-28T16:10:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T20:10:53","slug":"fact-check-has-zara-banned-women-from-wearing-hijabs-in-its-stores-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-has-zara-banned-women-from-wearing-hijabs-in-its-stores-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Has Zara Banned Women From Wearing Hijabs In Its Stores In France?"},"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\">28<\/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%2Ffact-check-has-zara-banned-women-from-wearing-hijabs-in-its-stores-in-france%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=1577003&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--><p>A post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sahika.hassan\/posts\/pfbid0nX2tR6vo2V9THgqq76zkKn5zUyRK3YQwSZ6xvCvSz7gwMRmPL4cnjeBruSwK2mrul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims Spanish apparel company Zara has instituted a ban on hijabs for women in its France locations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7487755\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7487755\" class=\"wp-image-7487755 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/zara-541x620-1.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook\/Screenshot\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/zara-541x620-1.jpg 541w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/zara-105x120.jpg 105w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/zara-768x880-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/zara-1536x1761-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/zara-2048x2348-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/zara.jpg 681w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7487755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: Misleading<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While there was an incident in Paris in 2015 in which a Zara security guard refused to let a woman wearing a hijab enter the store, there is no evidence to suggest Zara has any policy in place banning hijabs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Facebook post, shared over 50 times, claims Zara had banned women from wearing hijabs at its locations in France. An estimated 10 percent of France\u2019s population is Muslim, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/13\/world\/europe\/france-election-muslims-islam-macron-zemmour-le-pen-pecresse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe store Zara just made a decision in france not to let any woman wearing hijjab(sic) to their stores,\u201d reads part of the post, which then goes on to call for Muslims to boycott the store. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/05\/20\/fact-check-george-w-bush-daughter-hijab-islam\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Image Claims To Show George W. Bush\u2019s Daughter Wearing A Hijab)<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The claim is inaccurate. There is no evidence to suggest Zara has instituted a ban on hijabs at any of its locations. There is no mention of such a policy on the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zara.com\/us\/en\/z-press-mkt1401.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> or on its verified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zara\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/page\/665569133594737\/search\/?q=hijab%20ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=hijab%20(from%3AZARA%20and%20zarausa)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accounts<\/a>. There are likewise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=zara+hijab+ban&#038;oq=zara+hijab+ban&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.2624j0j1&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no credible news reports<\/a> to suggest the company has implemented such a policy in any of its stores or is planning to do so in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The claim seems to stem from an incident that occurred in Paris in 2015 in which, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/tasneemnashrulla\/video-shows-a-zara-store-in-paris-stopping-a-woman-in-a-hija\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buzzfeed News<\/a>, a Zara security guard refused to let a woman wearing a hijab enter the store. The incident was caught on camera and the company quickly apologized for the incident and clarified in a Twitter post that it is \u201cabsolutely not\u201d the company\u2019s policy to ban hijabs, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact has reached out to Zara for comment on the alleged ban and will update this piece if a response is received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims Spanish apparel company Zara has instituted a ban on hijabs for women in its France locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1075,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577003","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\/1577003","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\/1075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}