Approximately 60 members of the French feminist organization NPNS (Ni Putes Ni Soumisses or Neither Whores nor Submissives) gathered at the Place de la Republique in Paris to make public their position against the burqa in France. President Sihem Habchi told AFP that “for this generation, the rallying point is secularism, parity and to build…
Sihem Habchi appeared as the first witness before a newly created parliamentary group studying Islamic clothing such as burqas and niqabs in the Republic, part of France’s effort to integrate its growing Muslim population while preserving its heritage and secular roots. The panel, chaired by Communist Party lawmaker André Gédron, will hold months of hearings…
In her new book Femmes invisibles, leurs mots contre la violence (Invisible Women, Their Words Against Violence, Calmann-Lévy 2008) sociologist Smaïn Laacher (CNRS – EHESS) claims that the community association Neither Whores Nor SUbmissives (Ni Putes Ni Soumises) has had problems representing Muslim girls in the suburbs of France because it was so popular amongst…
