Hijab and the City defies French Muslim stereotypes | PRI’s The World.
How to integrate Muslims into France’s secular state? That’s a seemingly endless debate these days. And it’s causing an uproar. But Mariame and Kadija Tighanimine, French Muslims of Moroccan origin would rather go shopping. Or at least promote it, on their webzine Hijab and the City. The name is a riff off a television show you probably know.
“We’re businesswomen,” said Mariame in a recent interview in Paris. “Hijab and the City is our webzine where we talk to our audience about shopping and other normal things. The political debate is just noise for us. It doesn’t mean anything.”