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.

  • @bouh@lemmy.world
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    01 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.com
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      -31 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.world
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        31 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.world
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          01 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?