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                                                                                    Most atheists or
                                                                                  those belonging to

                                                                                another religion other
                                                                                  than Islam respect
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        the Swedish city of Linköping,      exactly the reason is, we explain   because of religion or race.
        there is no discrimination. Even    and most of them listen and         Despite all of that, there are still
        though I wear the Islamic hijab,    respect our beliefs.”               acts of racism that take place
        everyone, is treated equally.”                                          in France and neighboring
        “As I study in the Faculty of       The Mix of Cultures and Its         countries,” said Nabil.
        Pathology, it is vital to treat all   Impact on Relationships           He pointed out that most
        patients equally with utmost                                            atheists or those belonging to
        respect regardless of what          Mohammed Nabil, another             another religion other than Islam
        religion, race or nationality they   university student residing in     respect Muslims. However,
        belong to. As a matter of fact,     France, talked about the nature     on the other side, there are
        showing respect to patients is      of the relationships between        others who do not respect
        core to what we do,” added al-      students and teaching staff and     Muslims and have abused hijab-
        Rubai’i.                            the impact of different cultures    donning women, and this is very
        As for the personal issues such     and beliefs on one another.         unfortunate.
        as the headscarf or the Hijab,      "As for the relationship between
        the university student said that    students at the university, it is   Life of a Female Muslim
        the recent rise in the number       not as strong as it was before.     Student in Europe
        of veiled students in Swedish       Currently, it is just a study
        universities has made the           relationship and nothing more,      "The number of Muslims
        Swedish more familiar with the      while in secondary school we        in European countries has
        issue of Hijab and why Muslim       would go out, pray and spend        increased in recent years,"
        women wear it. However, there       more time together in school        said Zahra Sharqi, a university
        are still some cases of student     and outside school. As you          student in Denmark. "Immigrant
        harassment, especially in           know, France is not a Muslim-       Arab Muslims, especially
        schools where the Hijab is not      majority country and the faculty    children and adolescents,
        recognized.                         has nothing to do with religion,    have integrated into European
        Al-Rubai’i concluded saying,        even on the exam paper they         society, where they have learned
        “We do get asked at times           conceal the student name so         new languages and have
        whether or not it is forced upon    as not to discriminate when         continued their secondary and
        us to wear the Hijab, or what       the teacher corrects the exam       university studies. On the other




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