March 2021 has seen the French Senate vote in favour of legal amendments banning girls, under the age of 18, from wearing the Hijab in public. These latest proposals have arisen as France attempts to introduce an "anti-separatism" law, which aims to increase the country's ‘secular values’. They also claim to be ‘liberating’ Muslim girls, ’freeing them from submission’. For this week's episode, we discuss the clear contradictions of this proposed bill, as well as Islamophobia, white saviours, media narratives and much more.

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