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.

  • Kra@mtgzone.comEnglish
    35·
    1 year ago

    Yeah so extremely racist to protect women from religious extremists. Just the mindless name dropping again, calling everyone and everybody a racist.

    • bouh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      63·
      1 year ago

      Protecting women by telling them how to dress. That feels very much like 19th century.

      You understand the dress is not even religious?

      • DarthBueller@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        What percentage of husbands/street enforcers will beat her if she doesn’t wear it? Where do those cultural norms of modesty come from, pray tell?