At a community center on Coney Island Avenue that helps South Asian immigrants, a woman wearing a black headscarf leaned against a door frame, numb, she said, from the news.
"Merah explained he was against the headscarf ban and was fighting against the French participation [in] Nato operations in Afghanistan," said Ebba Kalondo, editor-in-chief of France 24.
As Barack and Michelle Obama touched down in the castle grounds in their helicopter, Marine One, waiting to greet them was the Queen, wearing a floral headscarf to protect against a chill wind, and her husband Philip in a casual raincoat.
He has loudly denounced court rulings against the headscarf.
But now, as prominent public figures like Rossignol rail against the headscarf, others have wondered whether the stigmatizing effects of this debate, often maintained by supposedly left-wing secularists, may also be a factor in the radicalization of a small but significant number of French citizens of Muslim background.
Miss Abdolah's pink headscarf stands out brightly against the blue backdrop of the news studio.
The party did not make a religious case against the headscarf ban.
In an interview with Anderson Cooper last month, Le Pen reiterated her stance against the headscarf some Muslim women wear as part of their religious practice. .
Based on their desire to enter the EU, their fear of military repression, and as a way to win the most votes, Erdogan's AK party rode to power by running against the headscarf ban on the one side, and as an efficient, non-corrupt, service-oriented, pro-market government on the other.
Aykut Cengiz Engin, Istanbul's chief prosecutor, said the group's alleged crimes included the murder of a secular judge in Ankara in 2006 by a gunman who said he was avenging a court ruling against the Islamic headscarf.
