Controversy involving hard-line Muslims and whether their wives can be examined by male gynecologists:

France’s leading gynaecologists have challenged hard-line Muslims to bow to France’s secular, “modern” rules of society, and to stop insisting that their wives are examined by female doctors.

The heads of the French National College of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians issued a public declaration, rejecting any moves to undermine the principle that public hospitals are part of a secular state, in which patients must accept being examined by a doctor of the opposite sex.

The move came after a consultant in Paris was punched by a Muslim who was concerned that a male doctor wanted to examine his wife after complications in childbirth.

(via Islamophobia Watch)