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.

  • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
    34·
    1 year ago

    ostentacious religious insignia

    That’s the law. That’s pretty vague. So, I’m pretty confident not everyone is enforcing a tiny cross necklace.

    • mothersprotege@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      If you’re going to copy and paste something several times, and are representing it as a quotation from law, maybe spell-check it? Also, I think there are good arguments to be made on both sides of this issue, but comparing an inconspicuous piece of jewelry to an abaya seems disingenuous. If small crosses were allowed, but small star and crescents weren’t, that would obviously be wrong.

      • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        It’s a quote. It’s copy and paste. If someone spelled it wrong, it’s not me.

        Either way. If a tiny cross is allowed and a tiny star is not, that’s bad.

        No symbols should be allowed of any kind. 🤷‍♂️

        I wonder how they handle tattoos.