|aIn France, Muslim schoolgirls are conspiring to break the law. Ranged against them are the French government, the teaching unions and much of the French public. The battleground? A new law, forbidding headscarves in school.Touria is 20 years old and has one year left of her studies. She wants to be a social worker for disabled children. This year is her crucial exam year, but she cannot imagine removing her veil and is determined to resist the new law. Eighteen-year-old Khadiga is traumatised by the prospect of having to choose between her religion and her education. She has worn a veil since she was 12, and says that it has become part of her identity. Teaching assistant Radia is a dynamic young woman in her early twenties. Radia, together with a small group of teachers at her school, has decided to fight the case of the veiled girls. Radia strongly believes that, if it is not right to impose the veil, then it is not right to ban it, either. The conflict over the veil throws light on deeper problems of integration within Europe[304157]s first secular state, pitting supporters of republican secularism against proponents of religious freedom. Many non-Muslims see the veil as a symbol of the oppression of women, and believe that girls should be protected from the pressure to wear it. But in the Arab ghettos, characterised by high levels of unemployment, urban decay and violence, wearing a veil is a statement of independence and a refusal to conform. Filmed in an observational style, The Headmaster and the Headscarves opens a window on the feelings and lives of young French Muslims, who have lived on the margins of French society hitherto. It also captures the anguish of teachers, Muslim associations, and schoolgirls and their parents, as they grapple with rules which are inflaming the very tensions they were designed to calm.
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