WHEN ONLY 1 PERCENT OF VEILED FRENCH WOMEN GET A REPLY TO THEIR PHOTO CV, THAT'S A PROBLEM

Hajar El Jahidi, from Get The Trolls Out! partner European Forum of Muslim Women, wrote an article for the Middle East Eye discussing a recent co-authored an op-ed piece denouncing the discrimination faced by Muslim women in Europe in the jobs market, and the reaction to it. Being one of the authors of the op-ed piece, Hajar explains how one journalist from the French magazine Marianne claimed the piece was an organised attack on French secularism. 

"The one-sided view of Muslim women as individuals who are either submissive or oppressed, or activists pursuing a hidden political agenda, is at best an uninformed view of the diversity of the group and at worst sexist and simplistic."

You can read Hajar's full piece for the Middle East Eye here.

On a similar theme, we have published a complaint about an article in Le Vif which calls the face veil “an ideological uniform” and claims that the “promoters of women’s face veil obviously have a political agenda” incompatible with democracy and human rights. You can read that piece here.