PARIS (AP) — Backlash is growing in France against a court ruling in favor of a Muslim employee of a private nursery school who was fired after she refused to take her headscarf off. A new poll has found that four-fifths of people in France would back a proposal to ban Muslim headscarves and other visible signs of religion in private companies.

France’s Interior Minister, who is in charge of religions as well as being the top security official, came out against the ruling last week.