Madeleine Bunting worries in The Guardian that France’s ban of the hijab will lead to “many more years of confrontation between the French state and Muslims, and a dangerous reinforcement in the Muslim community of the perception of Islamophobia, of exclusion and persecution.”
Bunting seems to disregard the confrontational nature of the wearing of the hijab in the first place, and of its character as an assertion of a political and social system profoundly at variance with that of France. That kind of confrontation is apparently just fine. (Thanks to “Allah.”)