\u201cI don\u2019t want to make Islam a subject of fixation for French society,\u201d Bayrou said. <\/p>\n
Attal, a former socialist and early Macron ally, and other centrists have increasingly seemed to inch rightward<\/a> on the political spectrum as France and the rest of Europe has drifted toward a more conservative tilt. As education minister<\/a>, Attal was responsible for overseeing the ban on abayas \u2014 long, flowing robes worn by some Muslim women \u2014 in school.<\/p>\n But Bayrou hinted that Attal\u2019s new proposal could alienate many French Muslims and would be nearly impossible to enforce. <\/p>\n \u201cDoes it mean that, in the streets, police officers will tell young women, show me your ID so I can see if you\u2019re old enough?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Macron on Monday said the risk of Islamist infiltration exists but shouldn\u2019t be overblown at the risk of becoming \u201cconspiratorial and paranoid.\u201d<\/p>\n Attal\u2019s idea is unlikely to see the light of day without support from Bayrou or even within his own party. Elisabeth Borne, the current education minister and Renaissance\u2019s second-in-command, said she had \u201cthe greatest doubts as to the constitutionality of this measure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t want to make Islam a subject of fixation for French society,\u201d Bayrou said. Attal, a former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2266,321,59506,34,2000,299,36,37,38,53753,41],"class_list":{"0":"post-135841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-egypt","10":"tag-elisabeth-borne","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-francois-bayrou","16":"tag-french-politics","17":"tag-gabriel-attal","18":"tag-islam"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114579670673287074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}