Kenza Drider

Kendra Drider (born c. 1978) is a French Muslim woman of Moroccan descent. She made the headlines when she announced she would stand in the 2012 French presidential election in protest at the burqa ban.
Wearing of the burqa was banned in France on April 11, 2011. Drider is described as the face of France's "burqa brigade", the small number of women in the country that continue to wear the full veil. "I will be going about my business in my full veil as I have for the last 12 years and nothing and nobody is going to stop me," she told The Observer newspaper. She wears the full and claims this is entirely her own choice. Her husband, Allal, describes how he was "shocked" when his wife first appeared wearing the clothing. A local businessman, Rachid Nekkaz, had agreed to pay any resulting fines.
Drider's parents were immigrants from Morocco.<ref name="Observer April2011" /> She lives with her husband in Avignon and has four children.<ref name"Observer April2011" /><ref name"CBC Sept2011" />

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