This resolution being scandalous and intolerable is further more a discriminatory maneuver that equivocatly condemns, stigmatises a part of society, in this case mothers wearing veils and willing to accompany their children on school trips. It is the duty of French League of Muslim Women to react quickly, firmly, about this illegal decision and strongly wishes to speak out their deep indignation.

In concrete terms mothers in their capacity as educators are denied a basic right, to be fully involved in their child's education. The deliberate exclusion of mothers from the scholastic environment under the pretext that they do not reveal their hair, on the contrary will have a direct impact on the well being, psychological balance of their children.

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This year, EFOMW is celebrating the international women’s day in a context of the popular revolutions in the Arab world, where unfairness, oppression and dictatorship did prevail.

These revolutions contradicted the prejudice which suggests that Arab world is to be either surrendered to dictator regimes, or a not less, bloody Islamic Extremists. Today, the whole world witnessed the way in which these revolutions were inspired by freedom of expression and pacifist demonstrations.

These revolutions destroyed European-widespread fantasies and stereotypes about Muslim women, their submission, and their imprisonment within imposed rigid of gender roles.