A bit of a back story:
Recently I was catching a flight from Nimes Airport (France) to a wedding. If I would miss the flight, I would miss the wedding.
By security screening, I was walking through the metal detector, and one of the security agents told me in his words "Take off your Kipa".
This was obsurd to me. Out all the countries I have been to in Europe, I was never told to remove my Yarlmuka when walking through a metal detector. What puzzled me more was the woman in front of me and in back of me were both wearing hijab, but were let through no problem.
When he told me to take it off, I looked at him like he was crazy and responded "are you serious?" He then motioned to the head security guard to come. I didn't want to make a scene and especially didn't want to miss my flight. Without more questions I did what he said and covered my head with my sleeve, and gave him a dirty look while walking through the detector.
This whole thing obviously made me feel that he was discriminating against Jewish people.
What are the policies for religious garments in French airports?
Could I have made a point by asking why he let woman wearing Hijab through the scanners?
Thanks for reading through.
