Islamic Schools in France: Minority Integration and Separatism in Western Society Cari Ne Bourget, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 197 pp.

Abstract

One consequence of the 2004 legislation banning the wearing of the hijab in French secondary schools was that it drove some Muslim students out of the public education system. A law justified with reference to France’s much-trumpeted and supposedly inclusive secular values has thus had the effect of increasing demand for private Muslim schools.