The education minister says female Muslim students will not be allowed to wear the loose-fitting robe.

Pupils will be banned from wearing abayas, loose-fitting full-length robes worn by some Muslim women, in France’s state-run schools, the education minister has said.

The rule will be applied as soon as the new school year starts on 4 September.

France has a strict ban on religious signs in state schools and government buildings, arguing that they violate secular laws.

Wearing a headscarf has been banned since 2004 in state-run schools.

  • felykiosaEnglish
    2110·
    1 year ago

    It s not only female its everyone . No one can were religion cloth. That just normal you are in a public place .

    • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
      104·
      1 year ago

      Except this kind of outfit is not religious at all. Abaya is basically just a dress which can be worn by anyone regardless their religion, unlike burqa and hijab. It’s like banning sari because Hindus women wear them, even though it’s not a religious cloth.

      The goal here is to ban religious symbol, right? Not outright banning anything related to middle-eastern culture? Surely there is a reasonable middle ground between banning religious symbols and banning the entire ethnic culture.

    • SulaymanF@lemmy.worldEnglish
      85·
      1 year ago

      That’s not how it’s actually enforced. This is making new laws and regulations picking on a minority.

    • bouh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      58·
      1 year ago

      Banning clothes in public space is fascism.

      I guess then we will force them to wear a special star and send them in special “protective” camps?

      • ClumZyEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Let me guess, you’re either an american or an anglo?

        • bouh@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          I’m French. But I know what fascism or racism are so I understand it can be a bit unsettling.

          Et si tu me crois pas à cause de l’anglais on peut faire le débat en français, mais j’avoue que parler avec des fascistes ignorants m’emmerde pas mal.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      313·
      1 year ago

      Fine. Can’t let the common folk of penis havers and non penis havers deciding how to dress.

      Fucking sheep have more self-respect.

      • felykiosaEnglish
        113·
        1 year ago

        If you can’t make a response without an insult I don’t think your argument is pertinent . But what the government want to do here is to put religion the farthest possible of the common global education .For me that s a good point .