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.

      • jimbolauski@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3114·
        1 year ago

        Forcing a person not to wear a type of clothing is just as bad forcing them to wear it. The reasons for either are not important.

        • Kalash@feddit.chEnglish
          825·
          1 year ago

          You hear that the military? Stop forcing people in those ugly camo uniforms! Reasons for wearing them aren’t important!

            • Kalash@feddit.chEnglish
              36·
              1 year ago

              I was mostly for showing that forcing a clothing standard sometimes does have reasons. Team sports would be another one.

              Also, banning every item of clothing that could be seen as religious, might turn into an endless game of whack-a-mole. So if France is so keen on secular clothing in schools, school uniforms seem like a legit option.

                • Kalash@feddit.chEnglish
                  43·
                  1 year ago

                  I’m also not a fan of school uniforms in general and I don’t have personal expirence with them.

                  But the topic of dress codes came up a couple of time when I was in highschool. One of them even lead to a “ban” though, it was only school policy, not a law. But yeah, there were a couple of girls that really pushed the limits of how short they could make their tops and hotpants. I, of course, loved it at the time, but looking back as an adult, 14-16 year olds probably shouldn’t dress like that in school.

                  Another topic I even caused myself. I went through kind of a punk phase and one day showed up with steel-tipped boots and a 30cm, neon green mohawk. There were some complaints, but ultimatly nothing happened.

                  My point is, regulating clothing in certain public situation is quite common with widley varying regional standards. It’s not as simple as “everyone should be able to wear what they want”.

            • bouh@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              1 year ago

              The dream of any fascist is kid soldiers (also kid workers, they’re never productive soon enough).

      • bouh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        67·
        1 year ago

        So to protect the freedom of these women you deny them the freedom to wear a dress?

        Holy fuck the racists are so stupid it’s surreal!

        • Kra@mtgzone.comEnglish
          36·
          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
            64·
            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
              11·
              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?