In the present study, I explore and analyze the veil debate, a controversial discussion about the presence of the Islamic veil in the West, focusing mostly in the French society where the problem first appeared inside the educational system. In detail, I present the origins and the history behind the Islamic veiling practice and also the meaning of secularity (laïcité) for the French society, as it was used as the main justification for the veil ban. Then, I display one by one, the events that occurred in the French schools from 1989 until the formation of the law that banned the Muslim veils from the French classrooms in 2004. Furthermore, the largest part of the dissertation is a discussion -a debate- of arguments for and against the wearing of the veil. Thus, drawing from the work of different scholars, I explore the areas that are interrelated with the Muslim veiling and its ban as well; French colonialism, racism, gender, education and religion. Finally, I reconsider and summarize the main points and I deduce that the problem in France and West is not about the veil itself, but about Islam not as a religion but as a political ideology. And ultimately, the fact that women are forced to unveil themselves does not entail that they cease to be oppressed.