Chehrazad talks on a mobile phone while shopping for clothes in Mantes-la-Jolie market in a suburb of...
Chehrazad, 36, talks on a mobile phone while shopping for clothes in Mantes-la-Jolie market in a suburb of Paris July 16, 2013. Chehrazad, a Muslim woman of Moroccan origin who is married to a French national, lives and works in the Parisian suburb of Mantes-la-Jolie. She works as a secretary in a notary's office, where she has to remove her headscarf due to a law banning their use in the civil service. Staunchly secular France has long struggled to assimilate a Muslim population made up largely of descendants of immigrants from ex-colonies, that has grown to around 5 million people and itself feels shut out of mainstream society and the job market. The previous conservative government banned full-face veils in public and far-right politicians have complained about Muslim prayers spilling out onto streets from overcrowded mosques. Anti-Muslim incidents have risen steadily in recent years in France, home to Europe's largest Islamic minority, according to the Committee against Islamophobia in France (CCIF). Picture taken July 16, 2013. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY IMMIGRATION)
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