The French communist leader Mélenchon claims that the veil is only a sign of women’s submission to men in Christianity; in Islam it is a sign of submission to God

The head of the party La France insoumise explained that the veil in Islam is a sign of submission to God and not to men, unlike in Christianity, he said.

In 2015, he also objected to the use of the term ‘Islamophobia’ and insisted that the veil was ‘a sign of submission’. And until 2017, during his campaign for the presidential elections, the head of La France insoumise declared with his usual choice of words: ‘I don’t see why God should be interested in a rag on the head’.

Article Le Figaro