On Sunday, August 27, 2023, the French Minister of National Education and Youth, Gabriel Attal, announced on the French television channel TF1 that female students would no longer be allowed to wear the abaya, a garment that some Muslim women and girls wear that covers the whole body except the face, feet, and hands, in schools.
The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.
In a July 29, 2022 interview on Blanca TV (Morocco/Online) Moroccan Islamic Scholar Ahmad Al-Raysouni, the president of the Qatar-based International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), said that Mauritania and the Western Sahara region should be a part of Morocco, that their separation from Morocco is a "colonialist fabrication," and that a Jihad march should be organized into Western Sahara and the Algerian city of Tindouf, where there are large populations of West Saharan refugees.