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More than a quarter of French Muslims, mostly aged under 25, support an ultra-conservative form of Islam, including the wearing of the full-face veil, a new survey shows. The majority of people who identify as Muslim support strict French secular laws, however.
The survey of 1,029 people was commissioned by Ifop, and carried out by a liberal think tank, Institut Montaigne.
At least 60 percent of the respondents said girls should be allowed to wear the headscarf in school and college, the survey published exclusively in Le Journal du Dimanche (LJD) weekly found.Twelve years after headscarves and other religious symbols were forbidden in classrooms, the ban no longer seems to convince Muslims in France, the
LJD reported.
Outside of school, 65 percent are in favor of wearing headscarves, and 24 percent support the wearing of full-face veils - the burqa or niqab - banned in public since 2010.
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