French police reject Muslim man’s application because of prayer mark on forehead Karim’s boyhood dream of serving in the French police force has been shattered because of his visible devotion to his faith.

September 21, 2023   

(Morocco World News) The Paris police prefecture rejected a Muslim’s man application to join the police academy because of a prayer mark on his forehead, French news outlet MediaPart reported last week.

Karim, the 24-year-old Muslim man whose application was rejected, spoke out about the situation last Friday, and the news subsequently made headlines.

Aljazeera reported last week that Karim, whose childhood dream was to become a police officer, had passed all the tests to join French police.

The applicant had only one final step left, a morality investigation, to receive the prefecture’s approval and enter the police academy.

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