1. Fadela Amara was born on Fatiha Amara on 25 April 1964 and is a French feminist and politician, who began her political life as an advocate for women in the impoverished banlieues.
16 Facts About Fadela Amara
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Fadela Amara was the Secretary of State for Urban Policies in the liberal Union for a Popular Movement government of French Prime Minister Francois Fillon.
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Fadela Amara is a former president of the organisation Ni Putes Ni Soumises.
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Fadela Amara was born into a family of eleven children, having four sisters and six brothers.
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Fadela Amara's father worked as a labourer during the week and in the markets on the weekend, while her mother was a housewife.
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In 1978, when Fadela Amara was 14, her brother Malik was run down by a drunk driver.
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Fadela Amara died of his injuries after a few hours.
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Fadela Amara was appalled to see the police side with the driver at the scene of the incident.
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Fadela Amara participated in the first demonstration aimed at encouraging electoral registration among the young people of Clermont-Ferrand.
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Fadela Amara went from door to door canvassing support for its retention.
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Fadela Amara left the government in 2010, and was named France's inspector general for social affairs in January 2011.
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Fadela Amara's position was clear:," quoting Fadela Amara as stating, "The veil is the visible symbol of the subjugation of women," the article goes on to conclude, "and therefore has no place in the mixed, secular spaces of France's public school system.
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Fadela Amara claimed that Islamic fundamentalists paid women to wear veils to make it seem like it was more normal.
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Fadela Amara's position was very unclear as she both advocated for an act that strictly prohibited the practice under penalty of law and for women to maintain the freedom to choose.
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In 2009, the day after the commission into the burqa was tabled in the National Assembly, Fadela Amara showed her support for the parliamentary commission to investigate the burqa.
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The laws passed by the National Assembly were what Fadela Amara had warned about in her 2004 book.