That’s a very good question, because, in fact, not so long ago, there were veiled women in the metro and on the tramway. And I’ve got my missionary name tag, and I thought to myself… well, for me, it was really the same thing. They have their headscarf, I have my name tag, it is an external sign that we belong to acertain belief, a religion, with convictions, but in any case, I asked myself, and I don’t know much about it, I lack knowledge about it, but I asked myself whether we had the right or not to wear such external signs of beliefs. So that’s why a lot of people would like to see the veil removed from the public space. And in fact, I said to myself: but if they no longer have the right to wear their headscarf, I no longer have the right to… well, that’s how I saw things.
In fact, I said to myself: if they don’t have the right to wear their veils, I shouldn’t be able to wear my nametag clearly. That’s why… our underwear is underneath, just so that nobody can see it, but the name tag… I said to myself: it would be terrible if I couldn’t wear my nameplate in the street, and so it would be terrible if they couldn’t wear their headscarf, because in fact it’s the same… well, I considered it to be the same thing at the time.
…On a lot of other things, I’ve got a lot of subjects that I don’t really know how… how we can do it so that people, so that it’s intimate and at the same time we’re not deprived of certain freedoms. Because I’d find it terrible if we couldn’t put our missionary badge on, because it doesn’t hurt anyone. And at the same time, I show others that I believe. So I’m not sure where we stand on that point. And it surprises me, in fact, when I think about it, I was amazed that you could wear a nametag in France. And at the same time, I said to myself, there are nuns walking down the street and nobody has ever said anything to them about the fact that they wear a veil. And yet, a Muslim woman, she gets words… We look at her every day. So there are things I don’t really understand. I don’t really understand. At this level, there are things that contradict each other, I feel, and I don’t know. I just don’t know. In any case, what’s certain is that, for me, if we prevented veiled women from wearing their veils, I wouldn’t think we should be able to wear our nameplates as missionaries, for example. That would be… the right thing to do.