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.

  • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    711·
    1 year ago

    Parents get to raise their kids. For instance, your parents raised you to believe that stripping someone’s rights protects their rights.

    They were wrong to do that, but they get to do that

    • Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      My parents are Catholics, and it’s also for that that I’ve begun disliking religions altogether.

      Is banning dresses at a state-level a thing that shouldn’t ever happen? Yes.

      Do I agree with the banning of a robe that strips women of their identity? Still yes.

      We humans are contradictory existencies

      • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Lol I like to joke that nothing turns you against Catholicism (or religion in general) like growing up Catholic.

        I’m a hardliner on freedom and (safe) expression, full stop, but I def get where you’re coming from.