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Kenza Drider, a French Muslim of North African descent, wearing a niqab, makes a phone call during her travel by train from Avignon to Paris April 11, 2011.
Monday, Apr. 11, 2011

Open quoteI am calling on all free women who so wish to wear the veil in the street and engage in civil disobedience.Close quote

  • RACHID NEKKAZ,
  • a French property developer, after France's ban on face veils came into force on Monday
Photo: Jean-Paul Pelissier / Reuters | Source: NYT